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property law serves the public interest.
Today I’m releasing a paper on foreign ownership of firms in IP intensive industries. Here is a summary of the paper: For decades, U.S. domestic and foreign IP policy has been predicated on the assumption that U.S. firms dominated both domestic and foreign markets for IP products. In an effort to evaluate the standing of […]
Open letter to Members of the U.S. Congress from civil society: Dear Member of Congress: As U.S. trade negotiators seek to conclude a standard-setting new trade and investment pact for the Asia-Pacific region by this October and consider launching another with the European Union, we write on behalf of our combined 15 million members and […]
The issue of orphan works has been systematically ignored in Colombia, but it has suddenly appeared as part of draft legislation to reform to the country’s system of Copyright Collecting Societies. At the end of 2012, the Colombian Performance Rights Organization (Sayco) faced an important scandal that led to the resignation of its manager, and […]
[Konstantinos Komaitis. Reposted from internetsociety.org, CC-BY-NC-SA] There is a ‘book famine’ – in the North, apparently, less than 5% of the books published are available in a form accessible by the blind community. In the South, this figure is no more than 1%. The WIPO Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Persons with […]
The eleven countries negotiating the TPP will hold negotiations in Singapore from March 4 through 13. The formal stakeholder outreach will take place on Wednesday the 6th. Inside U.S. Trade has reported that industry sources expect the American negotiators to informally “verbalize” ideas related to new text on intellectual property and access to medicines. USTR’s […]
Today, the U.S. Trade Representative posted the 2013 Trade Policy Agenda and 2012 Trade Policy Report. The report covers trade negotiations existing trade agreements, and enforcement activities for all sectors. At first glance, one strange item stands out: the U.S. “encourages” Canada “to meet its Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement obligations by providing its customs officials with ex […]
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