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On February 16, 2011 at 10am the full Senate Judiciary will hold a hearing on efforts to shut down websites where IP-infringing content is hosted. The witnesses will include representatives from Rosetta Stone, the Authors Guild, GoDaddy!, Verizon, and Visa. In the last Congress, the Committee’s Chairman Sen. Leahy sponsored the Combating Online Infringement and […]
Politico has published a story covering the recent resolution by state lawmakers urging USTR to exclude from the Trans Pacific Partnership any chapter on pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursements. The resolution by the National Legislative Association on Prescription Drug Prices warns that state programs that provide access to medicines for low income Americans (including Medicaid) do […]
[gview file=”http://infojustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/tpp-10feb2011-us-text-ipr-chapter.pdf”] Author Bijan Madhani
Please join fellow legal academics in signing this draft statement to the administration on the constitutional problem with ACTA. The submission is open for editing comments and signatures until FRIDAY FEBRUARY 11 AT 4PM eastern standard time. The submission is open to any self identified “legal academic.” We welcome part time teachers and such and […]
On February 8, the ‘IP Czar’ released the annual report to the President and Congress. The report describes efforts to enlist industry to voluntarily fight online infringement, to increase criminal enforcement, and to promote increased IP enforcement abroad through trade policy. It says that the office of the IP Enforcement Coordinator is currently reviewing existing […]
Peter Maybarduk (Public Citizen) and Sean Flynn (representing Forum on Democracy and Trade) met with USTR staff on February 3 to be briefed on the administration’s negotiation of the TPP with respect to the planned IP chapter and the rumored chapter on pharmaceutical reimbursement programs. This meeting was requested to be on the record. A […]
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