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A few days ago, the hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) industry was able to successfully lobby (via Halliburton) to weaken North Carolina’s proposed fracking information access rules. The result could be that trade secrets – that information that is commercially valuable because it is not publicly known– will be difficult to access not only for the public, […]
Today, Reps. Levin, Waxman, Conyers, Rangel and McDermott sent the following letter to the U.S. Trade Representative. In October 2011 we wrote to Ambassador Kirk to reiterate the importance of incorporating, in the Trans Pacific Partnership, (TPP), the Bipartisan Agreement on Trade Policy of May 10, 2007 (May 10 agreement). As the TPP negotiations enter […]
Yesterday, the Cato Institute hosted a panel on the Investor-State dispute brought by Eli Lilly against Canada under Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The panel featured Mark Schultz from the Southern Illinois University School of Law, Burcu Kilic from Public Citizen, and Christopher Sands from the Hudson Institute. The trade dispute […]
[Cross posted from CCUSA, Link (CC-BY)] Much of what we hear about the globalization of copyright law around the world does not favor users. The dominant trend of lengthening terms, increasing criminalization and “deterrent” penalties and expanding third party liability has the intent and effect of privatizing more and more of the public domain. But […]
[Treatment Action Campaign, Link, (CC-BY-SA)] Today the Mail & Guardian published a story entitled – “Motsoaledi: Big pharma’s ‘satanic’ plot is genocide” regarding leaked documents revealing that the international pharmaceutical industry planned a $450,000 campaign against the proposed patent law reforms in South Africa. In reaction the Treatment Action Campaign’s General Secretary Vuyiseka Dubula made the […]
Today, President and First Lady Obama met with university and higher education leaders to promote efforts “to help more students afford and graduate from college with the skills they need.” A White House press release highlighted the President’s efforts to increase grant funding and reform student loads, as well as over 100 “New Commitments to […]
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