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Last week, USTR hosted the first round of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations in Washington D.C. A statement by the EU indicated that during the talks, the negotiating groups “set out respective approaches and ambitions in as much as twenty various areas,” but there have been few details. A round of stakeholder consultations […]
Peter Jaszi and I are asking for other Copyright experts and academics to support a letter to Colombian officials on their pending Copyright reform. The link to the letter and a quick and easy sign-on form is at: http://infojustice.org/colombia-copyright-bill We ask for expressions of support by Thursday July 18 so that we can release the letter at meetings in Colombia
Cross posted on China Law Blog. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. I won’t pretend any expertise on Hollywood-China film politics, but it does sound like it would make for a fantastic dark comedy. The story would certainly include the profit-sharing agreements whereby Chinese firms are the overwhelming beneficiaries of Hollywood’s growing popularity. […]
Again, this is jointly posted with China Law Blog. Part 1 is here. Although we initially approached piracy an intellectual property issue, we ended up spending a lot of time on the determinants of price and availability in legal markets, and so on questions of media ownership and market structure. And when we looked at […]
Dan Harris at China Law Blog invited me to write a post about the launch of the Chinese translation of Media Piracy in Emerging Economies. There is no China chapter in the report, but of course there are numerous China connections and parallels. Here’s an attempt to explore those connections, in three parts. Part 1, […]
Last month, PIJIP asked people to recommend examples of domestic legal provisions regarding technological protection measures (TPMs) that include good protections of users engaged in lawful uses of copyrighted content. People suggested we look at the copyright laws of India, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Hong Kong, as well as proposed laws in Canada and Brazil. […]
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