Analysis at the intersection of intellectual
property law and the public interest.
A leaked text of the Canada-Europe Free Trade Agreement, and an email sent from the Secretariat of the Council of the European Union to the Member States and the Commission, are fueling concern about the agreement’s intellectual property provisions. The Canadian Press reports that Industry Canada and Health Canada conducted a joint research project to estimate […]
PIJIP and Public Citizen Event October 16 – “IP, Trade and Development” PIJIP and Public Citizen will co-host a multidisciplinary event that will bring together academics, civil society, and policy makers to 1) examine how intellectual property affects economic growth in countries at different levels of development, and 2) analyze the way the United States […]
PIJIP and Public Citizen will co-host a multidisciplinary event that will bring together academics, civil society, and policy makers to 1) examine how intellectual property affects economic growth in countries at different levels of development, and 2) analyze the way the United States ratifies trade agreements through Executive Agreements. Author PIJIP
[Written by Jenny Cascante Gonzalez · Translated by Jane Ellis – posted on Global Voices CC-BY-3.0] Thousands of students participated in a march in San José on Tuesday, October 9, 2012, protesting for their right to photocopy textbooks for educational purposes. The unrest was caused by President Chinchilla vetoing Bill 17342 (known as the ‘Photocopying […]
Judge Harold Baer has issued a decision in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust that equals a big win for universities and for fair use. The HathiTrust is a digital collection of millions of scanned books from sixty partner institutions. It allows limited uses of all content in the collection – including the searching of full texts […]
Precedent-Setting Government Order has Extraordinary Lifesaving Potential On September 3, the government of Indonesia took a quiet but exceptionally important step to expand access to medicines and help save and improve lives of people living with HIV/AIDS and hepatitis B. President Dr. H. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono signed a decree authorizing government use of patents for […]