Analysis at the intersection of intellectual
property law and the public interest.
Derechos Digitales and AccessNow have launched RedLatAm, a new website that describes the changing landscape of digital rights in Latin America. It includes country-by-country information on laws and legislation concerning intellectual property, personal data protection, network neutrality, and computer crime. The report (in Spanish) is available at https://redlatam.org/es Author Mike Palmedo Mike Palmedo is […]
Last week, USTR announced that it was closing a “partially open” meeting of the Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Small and Minority Business. No reason was given for the closing of the meeting. But this led an office in Congress to request the Congressional Research Service to find out just how many open meetings of the […]
[Mike Palmedo] US and EU trade negotiators met in Arlington, VA today. They heard presentations from stakeholders as part of a negotiating round for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. My presentation argued that it is important for any international agreement to allow countries to adopt IP laws that are best suited to their domestic needs. It also pointed out
[Timothy Vollmer, Open Policy Network, Link, (CC-BY)] Today we’re excited to announce the launch of the Open Policy Network. The Open Policy Network, or OPN for short, is a coalition of organizations and individuals working to support the creation, adoption, and implementation of policies that require that publicly funded resources are openly licensed resources. The website […]
Negotiators from the 12 countries negotiating the Trans Pacific Partnership are meeting in Singapore this week. Much of the press coverage has focused on differences between the U.S. and Japan over agricultural subsidies that have been difficult to overcome. However, there have been new developments on intellectual property as it relates to access to medicines. […]
[Electronic Information for Libraries, Link, (CC-BY)] The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) have both issued new open access policies which will contribute to making research more available. The announcement on the Policies on Open Access to Research Articles from Publicly Funded Research, was made on May 15, during […]