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Global Health Justice Partnership Policy Paper 1 Yale Law School and Yale School of Public Health [Hannah Brennan, Rebecca Distler, Miriam Hinman, Alix Rogers (CC-BY)] In this paper, we address whether and how human rights norms and frameworks can be used to improve access to medicines (A2M) by reducing the barriers that intellectual property (IP) […]
Two events this week will examine issues in international intellectual property. September 11, The Promise and the Peril of Intellectual Property Licensing for Indigenous Assets. September 12, The Marrekesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled. Links to registration for the free and public events, as […]
[Maureen Nwobodo, Assoc. for Progressive Communications (CC-BY-NC-SA)] Many countries have made moves to make internet intermediaries (such as cybercafés, internet service providers and telecom operators) liable for the sort of content posted at their web-space/network by its users, thereby indirectly using them to police the flow of information. These practices, which have a negative impact in […]
On August 28, a group of members of the Peruvian legislature – the Parlamentario Acción Popular-Frente Amplio – proposed a motion that asks for greater transparency in the Trans Pacific Partnership Negotiations. Specifically, the motion seeks “a public, political, and technical debate on the proposals of the Trans-pacific Partnership” and requests “the Minister of Foreign […]
Reposted with author’s permission from the Socio-Legal Newsletter Concern about access to educational materials has regularly been in the news. Whether it is the ‘cost of knowledge’ campaign focusing on Elsevier’s blanket licence policy[1] or the suicide of Aaron Swartz.[2] Also significant was Harvard University’s announcement that it couldn’t afford the price hike demanded by […]
Vietnam’s controversial new “Decree 72 on the Management, Provision and Use of Internet Services and Online Information” went into effect on September 1. The full text in Vietnamese is here.* As reported in VOA by Marianne Brown,”Critics say the new rules are aimed at stifling speech online and could discourage businesses from operating in Vietnam. […]
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