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This is the second set of comments reported out from the research survey. Here the comments focus primarily on research priorities around copyright reform, users’ rights, and enforcement. More research ideas here, here, here, and here. As before, if you want to submit a couple paragraphs about research priorities for the field, here’s the place […]
Between July and September, 2013, The American Assembly surveyed members of the ‘Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest’ community to learn more about their research and priorities. We invited responses from anyone who had either been to a Global Congress, been invited, or expressed interest in coming to one–a total of around 600 […]
The copyright industries hire a lot of people, and employment figures are often used to argue for stronger protection for rightholders. But do the industries in countries with stronger protection for rightholders hire more people than the same industries in countries with limits on the scope and enforcement of copyright? Do countries with more robust […]
Open letter to WTO Leadership signed 162 Civil Society Groups. Original, with signatures. The undersigned organizations are writing to express concerns regarding intellectual property commitments being forced on Yemen as part of its WTO accession package that will be presented for formal adoption, to the 9th WTO Ministerial Conference in Bali, 3-6 December 2013. Author […]
[Cross posted on Heesob’s IP Blog] The followings were demanded by the U.S. negotiators but eventually withdrawn during the negotiation of FTA with South Korea. Patent term extension due to an approval delay: The US demanded a patent term extension to compensate delay of a marketing approval process in “another” Party. Recognition of patent term […]
Inside US Trade[1] and the USTR[2] have announced that the U.S. is floating new proposals on IP in its marathon Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations. Although the U.S. touts its new proposals as being balanced, as prioritizing access to medicines, and as recognizing the interests of developing country negotiating partners, particularly, Peru, Vietnam, Mexico, and Malaysia, […]
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