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The Australian Law Reform Commission is seeking submissions on its paper Copyright and Digital Economy Issues Paper. The paper and questions it raises are described below. The deadline for submissions is November 16, 2012. August 2012: With a view towards providing structure to the debate regarding the adequacy of present exceptions and licensing in the […]
Post by PIJIP Professor Jorge Contreras, originally written as a guest post for Public Knowledge. [Source] Despite its own protestations to the contrary, I am confident that the rumors of Samsung’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. Of course, the Korean electronics giant can’t be happy about the $1.05 billion verdict handed down by a San […]
The fourteenth round of negotiations of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement will be held from September 6-15 in Leesburg, Virginia next month. The Stakeholder events – where members of civil society interact with negotiators in an officially sanctioned forum – will take place on Sunday the 9th. The events include “Stakeholder Presentations,” where civil society […]
[World Bank Paper by Hanif Rahemtulla, Samantha Custer, Irina Tisacova, Kaushal Jhalla, Soren Gigler, and Charles Brigham.] ABSTRACT: … In April 2011, Moldova became one of the first countries in the region, and among the first 16 countries in the world, to launch and Open Data portal. The government has subsequently released 324 datasets, including […]
A coalition of eighteen Thai civil society groups has written an open letter to the European Parliamentary delegation to Thailand. The letter warns that the TRIPS-Plus provisions in the trade agreement between EU and Thailand – including border measures, data exclusivity, patent term extensions, and protection for new indications – would block access to generic […]
[From the EFF Deeplinks Blog] Civil Society groups from around the Pacific Region join forces to oppose the exceptions and limitations framework in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) proposed by the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) in a new joint statement [PDF] [TXT]. It reads: We, the undersigned public interest organizations, oppose the current […]
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