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February 28: MEP and ACTA Rapporteur David Martin indicated he wants the European Parliament to refer ACTA to the European Court of Justice to ensure that the agreement does not conflict with other treaty obligations and EU Common Law. [see European Parliament press release] He believes that “Parliament should prepare its own questions, rather than […]
[Originally posted on publicknowledge.org] In my previous post on the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), I explained how provisions of TPP might harm you. Of course, it’s hard to know exactly what might be bad within secret agreements like the TPP–all we have to go off of is leaked text that is many months old. But […]
PIJIP Research Paper no. 2012-06 Author: Jonathan Band Abstract: The controversy in the United States over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has profound implications for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. The SOPA debate underscores the importance of striking the proper balance in intellectual property laws to promote creativity and innovation. It demonstrates that over-protection […]
As the U.S. enters a new round of TPP negotiations this week, it is being asked to initiate a formal trade dispute with one of the other countries at the negotiating table. Inside U.S. Trade reports that Senator Hatch has asked the Obama Administration to initiate dispute settlement proceedings against Chile for violations of the […]
Fifty AIDS activists, students, and community group members protested at Novartis’s Institute for BioMedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on February 22, the eve of the Swiss pharmaceutical company’s annual shareholders meeting in Berne Switzerland. The protest was part of two days of global action drawing attention to the pharmaceutical giant’s pending lawsuit against cancer patients […]
PIJIP Research Paper no. 2012-05 Author: Margot Kaminski Abstract: In the past several years of free trade agreement negotiations, a number of proposals for establishing an international standard of liability for copyright infringement by online intermediaries have emerged. These proposals consistently lack consideration of their implications for Internet users. Building off a public stakeholder presentation […]
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