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[Joseph Henry Vogel, Manuel Ruiz Muller, Klaus Angerer, and Christopher May] “Access to genetic resources” and “fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising [from their] utilization” is the third objective of the 1992 United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The expression is included in the full title of the 2010 Nagoya Protocol (NP). Neither agreement defined “material” in the
[Michael Geist] ...As further discussed in an Education International policy brief "E-commerce, Education and Copyright", the merger of e-commerce and education opens the door to new, for-profit online educational service providers that may have a disruptive impact on a sector that has traditionally operated primarily on a non-commercial, public interest basis... Unfortunately, the implications for education of these e-commerce and
[Terea Nobre] Access to knowledge is an important aspect of the right to education. In order to respond to the needs in the classroom, teachers often complement traditional teaching resources (e.g., textbooks and other curated materials) with a wide spectrum of materials from a variety of sources (e.g., short videos, images, articles). These are often protected by copyright and related
[Lokesh Vyas] This is a short descriptive post highlighting the vitriolic waiving of TRIPS Waiver - which began with a proposal (by India & South Africa) waiving all the Intellectual Properties (IP) limitedly but ended up with a (pre-decided?) decision giving some leeway on compulsory licensing of patents (that’s it!). In sum, the journey is Intellectual Property Waiver to Compulsory
[Christophe Geiger and Bernd Justin Jütte] Copyright, at international, European and national levels, does not provide a legal framework that prioritizes enabling and incentivizing research using protected works and information to the extent necessary and desirable in a digital, data-driven society in order to build a sustainable ecosystem for innovation and creativity. While small progress has been made, for example
[Katrina Perehudoff, Ellen 't Hoen, Kaitlin Mara, Thirukumaran Balasubramaniam, Frederick Abbott, Brook Baker, Pascale Boulet, Mohga Kamal-Yanni, Manuel Martin, Viviana Munoz Tellez, Yannis Natsis, Vicente Ortún-Rubio, Sandeep Rathod, Maties Torrent, Yousuf Vawda, Luis Villarroel, James Love] ... We recommend that a pandemic treaty ensures sufficient financing for biomedical research and development (R&D), creates conditions for licensing government-funded R&D, mandates technology
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