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By Luisa Fernanda Guzmán Mejía (CC-BY) Cross posted from Digital Rights – LAC; Link After approving the Marrakesh Treaty, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will resume the Development Agenda. Now is the time for reviewing the needs of libraries and archives, but will there be political will to do so? Libraries and archives have the mission to […]
Click here for the original statement in Spanish. An English translation follows: The government of Mexico has engaged in secret negotiations, behind the backs of the public and elected legislators, but open to an army of transnational companies, on the latest neoliberal project led by the U.S. government, a super free trade agreement in the […]
The Competition Commission of India will investigate Ericsson for anticompetitive practices related to its Standard Essential Patents on smartphone technology. The competition complaint arose as part of a dispute between Ericsson and the Indian consumer electronics company Micromax. According to the CCI order announcing the case: “[Micromax] has alleged that [Ericsson] was demanding unfair, discriminatory, […]
[Stephen Kinsella, Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom, Link (CC-BY)] Patents are often used as indicators for economic and innovative progress.1 The assumption is that many patents represent innovation, and also that many innovations are patented. Patent records thus correlate with innovation. A fascinating new paper, “Reassessing patent propensity: evidence from a data-set of […]
Executive Summary. Click here for the full Article 19 Analysis (PDF) On 13 November, Wikileaks published a full draft of the IP Chapter of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (‘TPP’), a multilateral trade agreement negotiated largely in secret by 12 countries in the Asia Pacific region. The draft text, which runs to 95 pages, dates […]
[Andy, TorrentFreak, Link (CC-BY-NC)] In legal advice to the EU Court of Justice, Advocate General Pedro Cruz Villalón today announced that EU law allows for Internet service providers to be ordered to block their customers from accessing known copyright infringing sites. The opinion, which relates to a dispute between a pair of movie companies and […]
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