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Second Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest The second Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest was hosted by the Center for Technology and Society at Fundação Getulio Vargas on December 15-17 in Rio de Janeiro. The meeting opened with a day-long public plenary, followed by sessions and workshops where […]
The second Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest opened on December 15th in Rio de Janeiro, hosted by the Center for Technology and Society at Fundação Getulio Vargas. The first day featured a series of plenary speakers. The webcasts are available here. This blog contains a very abbreviated account of the talks: […]
In her talk at the opening plenary of the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, Vera Franz showed this graphic which maps the web space around the ACTA debate. It shows the sites that drew most of the traffic, and the connections between them. The graphic was made using a tool from […]
On New Year’s Eve, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative issued a Federal Register Notice announcing 2013’s Special 301 Review. This is the annual process in which an interagency committee led by USTR conducts a review “to identify countries that deny adequate and effective protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) or deny fair and […]
On December 20, the state of São Paulo approved PL 989/2011, which establishes a policy of Open Educational Resources. Article one holds that educational resources developed by the government “should be made available in these institutions or [on the government’s] electronic sites… and licensed for free use, comprising copying, distribution, downloading and redistribution,” on the conditions […]
[Cross posted from Patent Progress] This weekend I attended the Second Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest held in Rio de Janeiro. The Congress is intended to draw attention to the often-overlooked public interest aspects of global intellectual property policy and to offer an organized counterpoint to the so-called “maximalist” IP agenda. Last […]
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