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WIPO Report on UDRP lacks structural separation and data, and throws aside clear free speech protections in the global domain name system

Kathryn Kleiman Twenty-five years ago, the then-new Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) adopted a virtual dispute policy for domain names as its first “consensus policy” and that policy is now due to be reviewed. A comment filed last week by PIJIP professors and fellows Christine Farley, Kathryn Kleiman and Patricia Aufderheide, together […]

The GRULAC proposal on remuneration rights at WIPO SCCR: Understanding the interface with national debates and the issue of corporate power

Speaking at the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights Symposium on 16 June 2025, Vitor Ido of the University of São Paulo (USP) explains the context of the renewed focus on remuneration of creatives in Latin America, especially in Brazil. He focuses on the desire by Brazil’s new government to regulate the power of […]

Unfair Licensing Practices in the Library Sector

Teresa Nobre outlines a chilling range of practices by publishers to try to restrict the ability of researchers to conduct computational research. From ‘choice of law’ clauses which seek to circumvent EU law, to increased liability and penalties on libraries which fail to police their users. Nobre suggests a series of urgent measures to tip […]

Malaysia exhorts Human Rights Council to prioritize the primacy of public health and human rights over commercial interests

This post was originally published on KEI Online by Thiru Balasubramaniam On Tuesday afternoon, 24 June 2025, the Core Group (Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Senegal, South Africa, Thailand) convened an informal consultation to consider the revised version draft resolution, “Access to medicines, vaccines and other health products in the context of the right of everyone […]

Latest Developments on Training GenAI with Copyrighted Works and Some ‘What Ifs?’

Luca Schirru ‘Boring’ is not a word that can be used to describe the past few days for those interested in litigation involving copyright issues in the development and use of Generative AI systems. Two major cases saw significant updates, issuing orders that addressed one of the main questions raised in these lawsuits: is the […]

WIPO General Assembly 66th: Navigating a Comprehensive Agenda with Constructive Dialogue

By Andres Izquierdo, Counsel, PIJIP, American University Despite the weight of a packed agenda and the significance of several recent treaty milestones, the Sixty-Sixth Series of Meetings of the WIPO General Assembly is expected to unfold key institutional decisions, including the initiation of the Director General appointment process, the adoption of procedural reforms under the […]