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Margot Kaminski (Yale Information Society Project), Brook Baker (Northeastern University) and Jimmy Koo and I (PIJIP) have released a draft section by section analysis of the leaked U.S. proposals for intellectual property and pharmaceutical pricing chapters for the Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement (TPP). The U.S. proposal is lengthy and complex, with almost every section including […]
On November 16, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), the controversial legislation introduced by Rep. Smith to give the executive branch and IP owners more tools to fight online piracy. Witnesses who testified represented the U.S. Copyright Office, Pfizer, the Motion Picture Association of America, […]
Margot Kaminski and Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid November 14, 2011 Abstract: This Working Paper addresses the proposed WIPO International Instrument on Limitations and Exceptions for Persons with Print Disabilities. We conclude that if WIPO wants to achieve compliance, this proposed instrument should be binding hard law. Enacting this agreement as soft law would undermine the goal of […]
On the eve of a hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, two releases from the research and academic community suggest that the current debate is on the wrong track. First, a new study by the American Assembly at Columbia University shows that the American public is strongly […]
The U.S. House of Representatives is now debating the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—the counterpart to the Senate’s PROTECT IP Act. If passed, the bill will expand criminal penalties for copyright infringement and give the government (and private parties) new powers to block access to websites accused of facilitating infringement. The bill is the latest […]
The South Centre has released a new policy brief on the state of the implementation of the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health. It hails the Doha Declaration as a “landmark achievement for clarifying the relationship between IP and public health,” but notes that there have been difficulties implementing the TRIPS flexibilities that it […]
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