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Inside U.S. Trade (Nov. 27, 2013) has reported that the U.S. floated a non-paper proposal for differential treatment and a transition period for developing country partners (Vietnam, Peru, Mexico, and Malaysia) with respect to some of its intellectual property demands in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations. According to Inside U.S. Trade, the mid-November non-paper would […]
Still more recommendations from the 2013 Global Congress Research Survey, focusing on methodology, communications, and social movement issues. This is Part 5 of 5 (for now). If you’d like to submit a couple paragraphs about research priorities, you can do so here. We’d be happy to publish Part 6, 7, etc.. A last thanks […]
Another installment from the 2013 Global Congress Research Survey, focused on research priorities around creative industries, incentives, and changing cultural practices. Part 1 provides an explanation of the survey and the first collection of comments. Part 2 focuses mostly on copyright reform and enforcement. Part 3 focuses on trade, patents, and health. As always, if […]
The European Commission has today launched a public consultation as part of its on-going efforts to review and modernise EU copyright rules. The consultation invites stakeholders to share their views on areas identified in the Communication on Content in the Digital Single Market (IP/12/1394), i.e. territoriality in the Single Market, harmonisation, limitations and exceptions to […]
Welcome to part three of our series on ‘research priorities,’ drawn from the 2013 Global Congress Research Survey. This section focuses mostly on patents, health, and trade issues. Part 1 provides an explanation of the survey and the first collection of comments. Part 2 focuses mostly on copyright reform and enforcement. As before, if you’d […]
Authors: Christophe Geiger, Daniel Gervais, and Martin Senftleben Abstract: The first version of the three-step test emerged at the 1967 Stockholm Conference for the Revision of the Berne Convention. With the inclusion of versions of the test in the TRIPS Agreement of April 1994, the two WIPO “Internet” treaties of December 1996, the more recent […]
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