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FrenchKat, The 1709 Blog, Link, (CC-BY) By decree dated July 8th (yesterday) and published in today’s Official Journal, the French government has severely limited the three-strikes graduated response scheme put in place to combat P2P piracy. Author REPOST
As many of you may have heard, Brazil has been engaged in a long process of studying patent law reform and in August 2013 (originally scheduled for July 10, 2013) will be issuing a major report and proposed legislative reforms. In sum, as detailed below in (1) an open letter and (2) its attached brief […]
[Ante Wessells, FFII, Link (CC-BY-SA)] Monday the EU and US will start negotiations on a trade agreement. Today the FFII sent a comment to the EU Commission and the EU Parliament rapporteurs on this agreement, with a focus on openness and the right to participate. See the PDF version or below. Introduction The EU and […]
PIJIP Research Paper no. 2013-03 Authors: Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic in Collaboration with Andrés Izquierdo and Fundación Karisma Introduction: In April 2011, Bill 201—known as “Ley Lleras 1.0”—was introduced by the Colombian legislature to implement certain provisions in the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The law placed strong burdens on Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to police […]
Jonathan Band and Deborah Goldman One of the arguments used by rights holders opposed to the adoption of open-ended fair use or fair dealing provisions outside of the United States is that those jurisdictions would lack a body of case law to guide judges, and it would take decades for such a body of case […]
[Also available as a PDF] International AIDS Society President and President-Elect Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Chris Beyrer today expressed their support for community activists at the IAS 2013 Conference protesting at the potential upcoming restrictions in access to generic medicines for many diseases including HIV, ahead of the next round of negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership […]