Analysis at the intersection of intellectual
property law and the public interest.
Twenty four additional Representatives have cosponsored the Federal Research Public Access Act, (FPRAA, H.R.4004), introduced by Rep. Doyle on February 9. The bill would require Federal Agencies to collect digital copies of peer-reviewed journal articles that result from research supported by their grants, to create and maintain a stable digital repository containing the articles, to […]
The occasion of Senator’s Wyden’s proposed amendments halting the US ratification of ACTA without express (ex post) congressional approval provides a fine time to analyze the legal justification the administration has offered thus far for entering ACTA without congressional approval. The recent justification by the State Department abandons the “sole executive agreement” rationale for ACTA. […]
Wyden has proposed two amendments relating to intellectual property and trade policy to the Jumpstarting Our Business Sector Act (JOBS Act). The first is a reaction to the Obama Administration’s assertion that it can bind the United States to ACTA without Congressional Approval. The Wyden ACTA amendment states that “the President may not accept, or […]
Infojustice Roundup Intellectual Property and the Public Interest Trans Pacific Partnership Negotiation News TPP Intellectual Property Negotiations Headed to Chile April 9-13 U.S. Proposal for IP and Medicines in the TPP Faces Stiff Opposition Maine State House of Representatives Calls for TPP Transparency Public Citizen’s Comparative Analysis of the U.S. Intellectual Property Proposal and Australian […]
The Sunday Times has reported on Siyavula, a project started by Mark Horner that has provided over 2.4 million textbooks to high schools in South Africa. Siyavula volunteers write textbooks for 10th-to-12th grade math and science classes, which are published under a creative commons license. Schools and students can download them for free, and the […]
Reposted from University of Lincoln Research Blog Annalisa Jones (CC BY-SA 2.0) Research Councils UK (RCUK) have produced a draft policy paper which sees an amendment to open access policies whereby it will be mandatory for all RCUK-funded papers be made freely available six months after publication. The draft policy paper was published on the EnablingOpenScholarship website […]