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Copyright owners have greatly increased the number of lawsuits for filesharing in the U.S., and have sued 201,828 John Does since the beginning of 2010. TorrentFreak has published data on the cases, and describes them as part of a “pay-up-or-else scheme” which could lead to millions paid in out of court settlements: “Through these mass […]
The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) has posted a letter sent July 18 by the European Parliament Committee on International Trade to the Parliament Legal Service which asks a series of questions on ACTA – What is its opinion on the legal basis for signing ACTA; how does ACTA conform with the EU […]
by Matthew C. Porterfield & Christopher R. Byrnes Originally published on July 12, 2011 in the Investment Treaty News, a newsletter of the International Institute for Sustainable Development. Matthew C. Porterfield is a Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center’s Harrison Institute for Public Law. Christopher R. Byrnes is a J.D. […]
In a letter to US Trade Representative Ron Kirk, ten members of Congress have asked for a meeting to discuss “the approach your office is considering for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement negotiations that would undermine public health and access to medicines in the developing countries negotiating that agreement.” They are concerned over reports that […]
Aaron Swartz, the founder of the nonprofit Demand Progress and a fellow at Harvard University’s Safra Centre for Ethics, was arrested last month for downloading 4.8 million JSTOR articles from a server at MIT. If convicted, he faces up to 35 years and prison and fines of up to $1,000,000. The District Attorney’s press release […]
The UK plans to modernize intellectual property law by implementing the recommendations in the May 2010 Hargreaves report. It announcement highlighted reforms including exceptions to copyright for private copying, parody, and text and data mining by researchers, as well as the creation of a copyright exchange to facilitate licensing, and the establishment of clearance procedures […]
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