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As you may well know the three-strikes-out rule was first enacted in S. Korea in 2009. Also this country introduced in 2006 a filtering obligation upon P2P and cyberlocker service providers. In January, Mr. Choi introduced a bill to entirely remove those notorious rules from the Korean Copyright Act. This provoked strong oppositions from the […]
Several of IP justice academics are soliciting signatures from legal and other academics around the world who focus on human rights, intellectual property, trade, and development and who are in favor of the request by WTO least developed country Members that they be granted an extension of the time period within which they must become […]
Trade Ministers of the eleven countries negotiating the Trans Pacific Partnership held a side meeting at the APEC summit in Indonesia last week. They issued a statement in which they agreed to keep working on outstanding issues (including IP), and indicated that Japan is closer to joining the negotiations. Author Mike Palmedo Mike Palmedo is […]
On April 20, WIPO held a meeting to prepare a text for the final deliberations on the treaty on copyright exceptions for Visually Impaired People. IP Watch reports that many of the countries seemed worried that there were too many areas left undecided, or even sliding “backward,” as the Honduras delegation warned. Some worried that […]
[Dan Cohen, Executive Director, (Announcement on DPLA site)] It’s not very often you get to build a new library. Together, that’s what we will begin to do today. Starting with over two million items, each with its own special story and significance, the Digital Public Library of America will now begin to assemble the riches […]
Case Study: Copyright Debate in Estonia Project Manager: Karmen Linask Copyright Specialist, National Library of Estonia Results of an EIFL-IP funded project (Link) [CC-BY] Download Case Study as a PDF Author REPOST
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