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To date, 200 people from around the world have signed the Third Global Congress Global Congress Declaration on Fundamental Public Interest Principles for International Intellectual Property Negotiations. The Declaration, drafted at the recent Global Congress in Cape Town, South Africa, calls for “a positive agenda in international intellectual property law making” which would include a […]
The EU Greens have sent around a first hand account of a December 5 meeting between trade officials including Velasco Martins (the EC’s top negotiator for IP in TTIP), and lobbyists from “TimeWarner, Microsoft, Ford, Eli Lilly, AbbVie (pharmaceutical, formerly Abbott) and the luxury conglomerate LMVH. The participant list also included representatives from Nike, Dow, […]
[Katarzyna Rybicka, Centrum Cyfrowe, Link (CC-BY)] In December 2013 Centrum Cyfrowe has accomplished two-year research project on copyright law and social norms related to content usage. The main purpose of the study was to provide reliable knowledge about what people today think on issues related to copyright. What is permitted, and what is not? What is right, and […]
Major unions in the U.S. and Europe have written US Trade Representative Al Froman and EU Director General for Trade Karel de Gucht, warning against provisions in the Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) that could “needlessly burden national health systems and increase the costs borne by patients.” Author […]
ICTSD Issue Paper 40 Author: Shubha Ghosh Abstract: The concept of the exhaustion, which determines the point at which the IPRs holder’s control over the good or service ceases, is the subject of increased attention by policymakers and courts in different countries. It was, in particular, at the centre of two recent United States Supreme […]
A Wall Street Journal blog by William Mauldin describes a recent meeting with Obama and his “trade team” to strategize over the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Trade Promotion Authority. The end of the blog has the following list of participants, “as provided by the White House.” It is notable that the agencies primarily responsible for […]
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