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Monthly report on copyright reform in Poland – February, 2013

Key developments in copyright reform in Poland- February 2013. The project is conducted with the support of Open Society Foundations. Most of the links lead to content in Polish. 1. In early February, the Polish Ministry of Administration and Digitization ended a consultation period for a draft proposal of the assumptions of a Bill on the Openness of Public Resources.

The Court Decision that struck down Ley Lleras 2.0

This week, the Constitutional Court published the judgment C-011/13 that struck down the Law 1520 of 2012, also known as Law Lleras 2.0., on the procedural grounds from a substantive law providing requirements of how a law needs to be passed in Congress (Act 3 of 1992). Although the dissenting votes have not been published, the judgment is in force.

Differences in Prominent US and EU Treaties Concerning Liability For Service Providers

In this year’s State of the Union Address, President Obama announced talks for a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the European Union. This agreement will likely include provisions on intellectual property (IP), which are often controversial . If IP provisions are included, they will likely reflect language in existing treaties. Below is a […]

Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons: A Post-Argument Discussion with Counsel for Parties and Amici

Today at 6pm, American University’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property hosted a discussion of this week’s ruling in Kirtsaeng v. Wiley, in which the Supreme Court held that “the ‘first sale’ doctrine applies to copies of a copyrighted work lawfully made abroad.” VIEW WEBCAST.   Author PIJIP

Sentencia de Corte Sobre Ley Lleras 2: Inexequible

[Published on karisma.org.co, CC-BY] El 23 de enero de 2013, la Corte Constitucional comunicó su decisión de declarar INEXEQUIBLE en su integridad la ley 1520 de 2012 (Ley Lleras 2), demandada por el Senador Jorge Enrique Robledo. El pasado 18 de marzo fue publicado el texto de la sentencia C-011 de 2013 y se mantienen pendientes de publicación los […]

EC Working Paper – Digital Music Consumption on the Internet: Evidence from Clickstream Data

Authors: Luis Aguiar and Bertin Martens Abstract: The goal of this paper is to analyze the behavior of digital music consumers on the Internet. Using clickstream data on a panel of more than 16,000 European consumers, we estimate the effects of illegal downloading and legal streaming on the legal purchases of digital music. Our results […]