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The online petition urging President Obama “to act now to implement open access policies for all federal agencies that fund scientific research” has generated over 25,000 signatures. All petitions posted to the administration’s “We the People” petition site that generate over 25,000 signatures will receive a response from the White House. The petition remains open […]
Infojustice Roundup Intellectual Property and the Public Interest Open Access Petition Reaches 25,000 Signatures The online petition urging President Obama “to act now to implement open access policies for all federal agencies that fund scientific research” has generated over 25,000 signatures. All petitions on wethepeople.gov that generate over 25,000 signatures receive a response from the […]
Without ever mentioning the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations directly, a new issue brief by UNDP and UNAIDS strongly criticizes all of the major proposals on medicines issues included in the U.S. proposal that was leaked last year. [Click here for the full report.] This report gives added ammunition to the opponents of the U.S. approach, […]
Today, three Committees of the European Parliament voted to recommend the rejection of ACTA by the full Parliament – the Committee Civil Liberties (LIBE), Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) and the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE). In mid June, ACTA will go before the Committee on International Development (DEVE). On June 21, it […]
The UN Development Programme and UNAIDS released a joint policy brief this week at workshop on the “Use of TRIPS Flexibilities and Access to Affordable ARVs in Asia.” The paper notes that the use of TRIPS flexibilities has expanded the number of people receiving antiretroviral therapy from 300,000 in 2002 to over 6.6 million in […]
The Associated Press has reported that “Dutch lawmakers adopted a motion Tuesday urging the government not to sign” ACTA, and that “Lisa Neves Goncalves — a spokeswoman for the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation — said the government had earlier this year stated it would avoid signing the treaty until it was […]
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