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Infojustice Roundup Intellectual Property and the Public Interest SOPA and PIPA Derailed by Popular Objection; Opponents Point to ACTA Support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) collapsed last week in the face of massive public outcry and a January 18 internet blackout. Over seven million people signed Google’s […]
AUTHOR: Carolyn B. Ncube. ABSTRACT: This paper briefly examines the current regime of copyright law in Morocco and seeks to examine the status of orphan works in Morocco, in lieu its membership as the sole African country in the recently signed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The paper concludes that Morocco can, and ought to, enact […]
The Indian pharmaceutical company Natco has applied for a compulsory license for sorafenib, an anticancer drug sold by Bayer under the brand name Nexavar. The price charged by Bayer is Rs 2,80,428 per month (USD 5,600), a price unaffordable to the majority of Indians in need of the drug (the compulsory license application shows that […]
Support for the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT-IP Act collapsed last week in the face of massive public outcry and a January 18 internet blackout. Google reported that millions people signed its petition against the legislation. Senate Majority Leader Reid postponed a vote on PIPA, prompting a cool response from Sen. Leahy, who […]
REPOSTED FROM USTR: The 11th round of Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations will be held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from 1-9 March 2012. There will be several events for registered stakeholders to take part in during the negotiating round. On Sunday, March 4 there will be a forum for stakeholders to present their views […]
The right of every citizen to seek, receive and share information is protected both in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). As regards Latin American countries specifically, the American Convention on Human Rights lays down rules on censorship in Article 13. Similarly, the Tunis […]