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I’ve turned The European Strategy Trilogy into something a little more refined and submitted it to the European Commission’s public consultation on ‘Assessing State aid for films and other audiovisual works.’ Download it here. Here’s the most radical suggestion: Modernize how public funding agencies conceive their mission, with an emphasis on much wider and cheaper […]
ACTA to Be Signed – But Can it Enter into Force? It has been reported in global press this week that ACTA will be signed October 1 in Japan. http://goo.gl/nC0PL But that does not mean that ACTA actually goes into effect. Indeed, there seems a decent chance it will not go into effect anywhere. ACTA […]
It has been reported in the global press this week that ACTA will be signed October 1 in Japan. But that does not mean that ACTA actually goes into effect. ACTA Article 40 states that the “Agreement shall enter into force thirty days after the date of deposit of the sixth instrument of ratification, acceptance, […]
The draft bill proposition for a Civil Right’s Based Framework for Internet in Brazil has just reached Congress. The English translation of this version is available here. It is the result of an initiative from the Brazilian Ministry of Justice, in partnership with the Center for Technology and Society of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (CTS/FGV), […]
When we last left the European Commission, it was continuing its pursuit of SMUS (Send Money to the US) based IP policies. We raised some questions about the wisdom of this strategy. But there is also a different EC conversation underway about revision of the rules governing public film subsidies. And this one is more […]
Infojustice Roundup Intellectual Property and the Public Interest Call for Papers: Towards a Positive Agenda in International Intellectual Property Law American University Washington College of Law’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property is seeking contributions to its online working paper series, and for a focus issue of the American University International Law Review, on […]
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