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Last, week, the 65th World Health Assembly debated the report on the Consultative Expert Working Group (CEWG) on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination. The report noted the failure of the current international IP system to incentivize research into diseases that disproportionally affect people in developing countries, and recommended a binding convention on R&D into […]
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player [by Timothy Vollmer] On Monday, the World Bank hosted an event called What the World Bank’s Open Access Policy Means for Development (you can view the video recording of the event at the link or embedded below). Participants included Peter Suber from Harvard University, Michael Carroll from American University (Mike […]
Infojustice Roundup Intellectual Property and the Public Interest World Health Assembly Debates Convention on R&D for Neglected Diseases Last week, the 65th World Health Assembly debated proposals to increase and coordinate funding for research and development into diseases that affect the world’s poor. The debate focused on the report of the Consultative Expert Working Group […]
Infojustice Roundup Intellectual Property and the Public Interest Law Professors Declare Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Unconstitutional Without Congressional Approval Last week, fifty U.S. legal scholars sent an open letter to the Members of the Senate Finance Committee, asking each of them to “exercise your Constitutional responsibility to ensure that the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is submitted […]
[Reposted from CIS-India.org] There are some welcome provisions in the Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2012, and some worrisome provisions. Pranesh Prakash examines five positive changes, four negative ones, and notes the several missed opportunities. The larger concern, though, is that many important issues have not been addressed by these amendments, and how copyright policy is made […]
[Reposted from the citizenvox blog.] The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a massive package of proposed new economic rules for the Asia-Pacific region (including the US), heavily influenced by corporate priorities through the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) and under negotiation right now. You might not have heard of it, but if it’s […]
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