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This morning, Sen. Orrin Hatch spoke about international intellectual property issues at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He was the keynote at the organization’s launch of the second edition of its Global Intellectual Property Index. A video of the event is here, and Sen. Hatch takes the podium at 9:45. Sen. Hatch argued that American […]
The House Judiciary Committee IP Subcommittee held a hearing this afternoon on “The Scope of Fair Use.” The witness list and the witnesses’ written testimony are online here. I was live-tweeting it, more or less, and you can see my stream of occasionally-less-than-objective descriptions of the proceedings here. As we mentioned earlier, our own professor […]
Last week, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that the circumvention of technological protection measures is not illegal in all cases. In order for the circumvention to be illegal, it must be done for the purpose of infringement.The full judgement is here. The CJEU press release notes that the EU directive requires […]
Make copyright compatible with the UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
[Ante Wessells, FFII, Link (CC-BY-SA)] I just made a personal submission to the Public Consultation on the review of the EU copyright rules. I used the You can fix copyright website. Very handy, thanks! I added an attachment, see below or pdf, in which I argue that copyright law has to be made compatible with […]
The third round of negotiations of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) are underway this week in Kuala Lumpur. RCEP is a proposed trade agreement involving the ten ASEAN member states and six additional countries that have standing trade agreements with them: Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, […]
We invite participants of the combined 3rd Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest and Open A.I.R. Conference on Innovation and IP in Africa to submit their papers for a special issue of the African Journal for Science, Technology, Innovation and Development. The best papers presented and submitted at the Open A.I.R. Conference and […]
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