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[Paul Keller, Communia Blog, Link, (CC0-Public Domain)] Last week Thursday the European Commission launched its much anticipated public consultation on the review of the EU copyright rules. This consultation is the first visible sign of the second track of the Commission’s attempt to modernise the EU rules (the first track consisted of the rather unsuccessful Licenses for […]
On the 5th December 2013, Australia and Korea announced that they had finalised a new free trade agreement. Is it a fair trade fairytale? Or is it a dirty deal done dirt cheap? It is hard to tell, because the respective governments have not yet published the text of the Korea-Australia Free Trade Agreement (KAFTA). […]
[Open Air, Link to conference website (CC-BY-SA)] This week, from 9 to 13 December 2013, delegates from national and international governmental entities, the private sector, civil society and academia are gathered for five days of interconnected events in Cape Town, South Africa. Hosted by the University of Cape Town (UCT), participants are engaging with diverse […]
As Trade Ministers meet for their TPP meeting in Singapore this week, additional leaks have been posted by Wikileaks and the Huffington Post showing different countries’ positions on a number of different issues (including but not limited to IP). Zach Carter describes the documents in his Huffington Post piece: “One memo, which was heavily redacted […]
USTR has proposed giving differential treatment to some of the TPP negotiating partners. Their plan would allow countries not classified as high income by the World Bank to delay implementation of some (not all) of the proposed TRIPS-Plus provisions that would block generic medicines from entering the market. James Love and Brook Baker have both […]
[Public Library of Science Blogs, Link (CC-BY)] Reshma Ramachandran and David Carroll warn that the Trans-Pacific Partnership will trample over access to affordable medicines Last month, Wikileaks posted the complete Intellectual Property (IP) Chapter of the secretly-negotiated Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) confirming public health advocates’ worst fears of the agreement’s impact on patients worldwide. The […]
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