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Global Inequities In Access to COVID-19 Health Products and Technologies: A Political Economy Analysis

[Deborah Gleeson, Belinda Townsend, Brigitte F. Tenni, and Tarryn Phillips] Abstract: This paper presents a political economy analysis of global inequities in access to COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and diagnostic tests. We adapt a conceptual model used for analysing the political economy of global extraction and health to examine the politico-economic factors affecting access to COVID-19 health products and technologies in
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Geographic Isolation, Trade Secrecy, and Innovation

[Andrea Contigiani and Marco Testoni] Abstract: This paper studies the impact of geographic isolation on innovation. Geographically isolated regions have lower access to distant knowledge and, thus, may be less effective in producing innovation. In addition, this effect may be moderated by frictions in the labor market, such as trade secrecy protection, that hinder access to local knowledge. To explore
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Fixing WIPO’s Proposed Broadcasting Treaty

[Electronic Information for Libraries] At WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR/43) that took place in April 2023, delegations were invited to send written comments on the latest version of the draft treaty for the protection of broadcasting organizations presented at the meeting (Second Revised Draft Text for the WIPO Broadcasting Organizations Treaty, document SCCR/43/3). While the text
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Ensuring Access to New Treatments for Ebola Virus Disease

[Médecins Sans Frontières Access to Medicines Campaign] ... Although the approval of these products was a great achievement, the process of ensuring that people who need them can access them is at a standstill. As crucial contributors to the R&D of these treatments, survivors, affected countries and NGOs should have a say in this process. However, we see that decisions
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Generative AI and Author Remuneration

[Martin Senftleben] Abstract... The rights reservation option following from the regulation of text and data mining in the EU (Article 4 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market) could serve as a basis for a remuneration system focusing on the use of human creations for AI training purposes. Considering legal and practical difficulties arising from this approach,
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WIPO Program and Budget Committee Adds New Language on Copyright Limitations & Exceptions to Budget

[Andrés Izquierdo] On May 25th, the 35th Program and Budget Committee (P&B) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) adopted new language concerning copyright limitations and exceptions (L&E) for the copyright sector at WIPO. Initially put forward by Colombia, this proposal received strong support from the African Group, leading to its adoption.
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