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[Reposted from AfroLeo] “PAIPO is dead! Long live PAIPO!” Thus exclaims Afro Leo’s friend and PAIPO-watcher Caroline Ncube, who has just sent us the latest news on this very sensitive, potentially valuable proposal: Afro-IP carried an impassioned discussion on the Draft PAIPO Statute last year and a petition on PAIPO was hosted on change.org. In […]
The official press release of the Colombia’s Constitutional Court confirmed that #LeyLleras2 was declared unconstitutional in its entirety due to procedural irregularities during its process in Congress. The Court after analyzing the content of the Act found that it mainly regulated copyright and related rights. For this reason, the approval on first debate of the […]
Today the government of Antigua is seeking final WTO authorization to launch a website that will sell copyright-infringing content without paying American rightholders in retaliation for the U.S.’s violation of the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services. The U.S. decision to discriminate against offshore operators of online gambling websites “devastated” the Antiguan online gaming […]
[Reposted from the AFINET website] The Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network (AFTINET), the Public Health Association and three other health organisations have made a submission to the review of pharmaceutical patents because the issue of patents and medicine is a key issue in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiations. The US is demanding much stronger […]
[reposted from andresizquierdo.com] The Congress of Colombia recently passed an Internet copyright legislation, Ley 1520 of year 2012, also known as Ley Lleras 2.0, to implement the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. With in the following weeks after Ley Lleras 2.0. was passed, a challenge was brought upon the law, and yesterday, because of a leak, […]
[Cross posted from http://karisma.org.co/] Yesterday, January 23, the Constitutional Court of Colombia decided about the constitutionality of the law known as #LeyLleras2 (1520 of 2012 Act). According to the press information available at this moment, the Court declared the unconstitutionality of the entire law due to procedural irregularities incurred in Congress because the law was […]
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