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Repost from: http://goo.gl/btVHB Ian Grant March 14, 2011 The US is continuing its secret efforts to secure tougher copyright laws, even though its Hollywood-sponsored anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (Acta) has still to be validated, a leaked document has revealed. A 10 February draft of the so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership Intellectual Property Rights Chapter calls for the provisions […]
Knowledge Ecology International received a leaked copy of the intellectual property chapter proposed by the U.S. at the February round of negotiations for the Trans Pacific Partnership. It is available here: http://keionline.org/node/1091 Author Mike Palmedo Mike Palmedo is the admin for infojustice.org, and he manages interdisciplinary research on copyright exceptions at American University College of […]
PEOPLE’S DAILY, March 14, 2011: China will strengthen its protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs), in a bid to improve the nation’s capacity for innovation, said senior figures from six ministries and administrations. Officials from the six bodies, which include the Ministry of Commerce, the State Intellectual Property Office and the State Administration for Industry […]
The Professional Musicians Union of Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian Association of Independent Music (ABMI), and 130 Brazilian musicians, composers and artists have written the Minister of Culture. The letter urges the government to find a third way out of the copyright reform deadlock, which ensures payment of creators, but which does not criminalize end […]
At a March 9 Senate Finance Committee hearing on the President’s Trade Agenda, the Senators’ top concerns included the quick passage of pending FTAs with Korea, Columbia, and Panama, as well as IP in China. US Trade Representative Ron Kirk promised to move forward on the pending FTAs and pointed to the Trans Pacific Partnership […]
Today at New York University I will be participating in the official launch of the multi-year multi-country study of Media Piracy in Emerging Economies (http://piracy.ssrc.org), edited by Joe Karaganis at SSRC. Mike Palmedo and I contributed to the report, in particular in its second chapter exploring Networked Governance and the United States Trade Representative. The […]
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