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Christopher Buccafusco and Jonathan S. Masur University of Chicago Law & Economics Working Paper Excerpt from introduction: This Article offers an economic analysis of the use of criminal liability in two areas of IP: copyright law and patent law. Our goal is to analyze the relative costs and benefits of criminal sanctions for IP violations. […]
[Cybernormer.se, Link] In 2011 we at the Cybernorms Research Group decided to try an interesting way to deeper understand the file-sharing community. In cooperation with The Pirate Bay we did a study called “The Research Bay” targeting their user-base. The response was huge; 75.000 respondents and over 25000 open answers. Today we are releasing that data to be […]
Comment submitted to the Department of the Interior by Profs. Mary L. Lyndon and David S. Levine We, the undersigned law professors who teach and write about intellectual property and trade secrets, write in opposition to the proposed Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) regulations of hydraulic fracturing (also known as “fracking”) contained in the Federal […]
[ACT-UP Paris, Link (CC-BY-SA-ND)] EU has just modified its legislation on the customs control concerning the enforcement of “intellectual property” rights, not considering that it impedes the legitimate trade of generic medicines in Developing countries. Generic medicines in transit seized These past few years, several shipments of generic medicines routing through the EU have been […]
Earlier this week, the U.S. Trade Representative issued a request for public comments regarding the 2014 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers (NTE Report). Comments may be submitted by “any interested person,” and they are due on October 22, 2013. The NTE report is defined in the request for comments as an annual […]
Almost six years after Brazil started publicly discussing its Copyright Bill, the first concrete changes start turning into law. On August 15, the sanctioned Amendment got published under number 12.853 and is available, in Portuguese, at http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2011-2014/2013/Lei/L12853.htm. It focuses on the regulation of Brazilian Music CMO (ECAD) – but affects all others CMOs – and […]
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