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[Blog by Leena Menghaney, India Manager of the Médecins Sans Frontières Access Campaign. Originally posted as a BMJ Blog under a CC-BY-NC license.] This month, two critical legal battles between multinational pharmaceutical companies and the Indian government are taking center stage in an ongoing struggle over India’s medicines patent law. The potential consequences could be […]
Proposed Pan-African IP Organization a Terrible Idea In a stunning development, following an obscure vote of Heads of State at the Africa Union in 2007 (Assembly Council/AU/Dec. 138(VIII)), the AU Scientific, Technical, and Research Commission has proposed a draft statute to establish the Pan-Africa Intellectual Property Organization (PAIPO). This proposed legislation will be presented to […]
By Sean Flynn, with translation assistance of Lina Diaz and Sofia Castillo, American University Washington College of Law Yesterday, in a situation a similar to Colombia’s rushed passage of “Ley Lleras 2,” the Panamanian Congress sprinted to finalization of an incredibly unbalanced copyright bill — Bill no. 510, “On Copyright and Related Rights.” The bill is […]
Panama’s Bill no. 510, reforming the countries law on copyright and neighboring rights, was approved today by the Congress in third debate. Under the Panamanian system, the law will now be sent back to the executive branch for final passage. The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Ricardo Quijano, expressed that “with the implementation of this […]
The United States Trade Representative issued Federal Register notices on July 23, 2012, for comments on Mexico and Canada joining the TPP negotiations as regards several areas of the agreement, including intellectual property issues. Organizations and individuals responding with comments on intellectual property issues were generally supportive of new participants in the agreement. The majority […]
Cautionary Tales About Collective Rights Organizations [Jon Band] Collective licensing has been suggested as a possible solution for the obstacle copyright law places in the path of new uses of works enabled by innovative technologies. Collective licensing does have the potential to reduce transaction costs when a large number of works are licensed to a […]
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