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Last week, “IP Czar” Victoria Espinel was featured as a keynote speaker at the World Copyright Summit, organized by the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers. The Wall Street Journal and Tech Dirt report that she described an expanding the role of internet service providers in IP Enforcement. She stressed a preference for […]
Communia Thematic Network Forms Nonproft and Releases 14 Point Platform on the Digital Public Domain
A group of over 50 academics and civil society organizations has established the Communia Association, a nonprofit based in Brussels dedicated to protecting and growing the public domain. According to its homepage, “The Association’s mission is to educate about, advocate for, offer expertise and research about the public domain in the digital age within society […]
On June 1, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the illegal streaming of copyrighted material, with testimony from Maria Pallante (Acting U.S. Register of Copyrights), Sandra Aistars (Executive Director, Copyright Alliance), and Michael O’Leary (Executive Vice President, Motion Picture Association of America). Under current law, streaming may be considered a public performance, and […]
On June 8, the UN General Assembly issued a 17-page “Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS: Intensifying our Efforts to Eliminate HIV/AIDS,” which includes statements related to TRIPS Agreement flexibilities and enforcement of IP. Paragraph 71 (b) urges countries to “apply measures and procedures for enforcing intellectual property rights in such a manner as to avoid creating […]
A 2008 cable from the US Embassy in Helsinki to Washington describes the efforts of the U.S. Ambassador and his staff to prevent a change to the Finnish reference pricing scheme for medicines. At issue was a provision in Section 57(c) of the Medicines Act that reimbursed process patent-protected medicines at a higher rate than […]
IP Enforcement Roundup YouTube Gives Users Creative Commons Licensing Option; Creates a Creative Commons Library YouTube now offers people who upload video the option of licensing their videos under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 3.0), which gives others the right to use and to remix the work as long as they give the […]
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