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The civil society group Article 19 (named after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights guarantee of freedom of opinion and expression) has published an analysis of Italy’s Draft Regulation on Copyright Protection on Electronic Communication Networks. Article 19 warns that “the Draft Regulation falls short of international standards on freedom of expression in key respects. […]
[Submission to the Australian Dept. of Foreign Affairs and Trade by 7 Australian NGOs.*] Executive Summary: This submission sets out our organisations’ views on the US proposals for intellectual property and medicines for the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiations, and our views on the position that should be taken by the Australian Government at […]
On Thursday September 26, 2013, American University Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) hosted The Law and Economics of Copyright Users’ Rights. The event featured discussions by economists and attorneys on the role of empirical evidence in copyright debates, and a keynote address by Sunil Abraham from Centre for Internet and Society in […]
Ante Wessells, FFII, Link (CC-BY-SA) The EU and Singapore initialed and published the text of the EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (EUSFTA). The text contains the much criticized retail price damages, known from the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the treaty the European Parliament rejected last year. On top of the retail price damages the judicial authorities […]
The Law and Economics of Copyright Users Rights conference probed the value of economic empirical evidence to copyright reform discussions. This post gives an account of the use of such evidence in current reform discourse in South Africa. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has taken some initial steps towards a comprehensive IP reform process […]
Yesterday, American University’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property held an even the Law and Economics of Copyright Users’ Rights. The event was the launch of an interdisciplinary project to conduct empirical research on the effects of flexibility in copyright law, including both the effects on consumer welfare and on innovation in the technology […]
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