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property law serves the public interest.
Enclosed are my lecture notes from my talk on January 7, 2012 on a panel at the American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. I have also included a printable version and a copy of the slides that go with the talk. Thank you to Mark McKenna and the section committee for […]
The Research Works Act (H.R.3699) introduced by Reps. Issa and Maloney would prohibit federal agencies that give grants from requiring that grant-funded research be made freely available online. Section 2 of the bill reads: “No Federal agency may adopt, implement, maintain, continue, or otherwise engage in any policy, program, or other activity that (1) causes, […]
The Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade is seeking comments on whether it should join the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations. Its notice asks for input on a range of topics, including “Views and experiences with the protection of intellectual property rights.” The deadline for submissions is February 14, 2012. Click here for the […]
[Repost of a blog on whitehouse.gov by Rick Weiss.] In November, OSTP issued two Requests for Information (RFI), one on open access to scientific publications and the other on the management of digital data. Yesterday, responding to numerous requests, we submitted to the Federal Register an extension of the deadlines for those RFIs to January […]
On December 28, USTR published a request comments in the Federal Register for the 2012 Special 301 Report, its annual report which identifies countries that “deny adequate and effective protection of intellectual property rights or deny fair and equitable market access to U.S. persons who rely on intellectual property protection.” The deadline for submissions from […]
Infojustice Roundup Intellectual Property and the Public Interest Spain Implements Website-Blocking ‘Sinde Law’ Spain’s newly elected Popular Party has implemented the controversial Law for Economic Sustainability (informally known as the “Sinde law” after outgoing Culture Minister Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde). Under the Sinde Law, rightholders can identify websites hosting infringing content to a government commission on intellectual […]
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