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Tobacco giant, Philip-Morris, brought actions this year under investor-State arbitration mechanisms in investment treaties to challenge laws limiting (in Uruguay) or prohibiting (in Australia) the display of its trademarks in tobacco packaging. This has caused the Australian government to take a strong stance against any investor-State arbitration provisions in free trade agreements (FTAs), including exemptions […]
Canadian Bill to Promote Exports of HIV/AIDS Medicines Produced Under Compulsory License Is Defeated
Yesterday, the Canadian Parliament voted down Bill C-398, which would have streamlined the Canadian legal framework allowing generic firms to export medicines produced under compulsory license to developing countries. The existing framework, Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR), establishes a mechanism for firms to produce essential drugs that are under patent in Canada and export […]
On July 6, 2012, China’s National Copyright Administration published a Second Draft for a new (third) revision (Chinese version) to the Copyright Law for the People’s Republic of China 《中华人民共和国著作权法》. Once adopted, this will become the Third Revision to the Copyright Law since it was originally enacted in 1990. Changes in the Second Draft from […]
German news publishers are trying to require licensing fees to be paid to them for indexing their content by search companies through a proposal that may move forward in the German Parliament later this week. This ‘ancillary copyright‘ (text here) law would require search engines and other purveyors of information on the internet (but not […]
We’ve looked at the difference age makes to copying and downloading (a lot), and gender (not much), and politics (not much). How about race/ethnicity? Well, it makes some. Here is our sequence of questions about attitudes toward sharing music…. Author Joe Karaganis
On Wednesday, November 28, the Canadian Parliament will vote on Bill C-398, legislation to reform the Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR). This is the law that was passed in 2004 to allow generic firms in Canada to export medicines produced under compulsory license to developing countries. CAMR establishes a framework that complies with the […]
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