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[Sean Flynn] This year’s World Intellectual Property Day is being dedicated to the theme of youth empowerment. The focus is on recognition of the role of youth “stepping up to innovation challenges, using their energy and ingenuity, their curiosity and creativity to steer a course towards a better future.” Intellectual property exclusive rights may play some role in rewarding the
[Sean Flynn] The proposal appears to be a good faith and rigorous effort to find a way forward for the next steps of the Agenda that can take advantage of emerging consensus positions and define a process that once could imagine progress arriving from.
[Sean Flynn] La propuesta parece ser un esfuerzo riguroso y de buena fe para encontrar un camino a seguir para los próximos pasos de la Agenda que pueda aprovechar las posiciones de consenso emergentes y permita definir un proceso.
[Joint statement endorsed by 18 civil society groups] On the occasion of a World Intellectual Property Day focused on Intellectual Property and Youth, we call on governments to ensure that national and international copyright laws ensure the right to education for all. We applaud the choice of theme, which draws attention to the largest generation in history, who will be
[Srividya Ravi] This report provides an analysis of patents covering medicines in trials to treat COVID-19. The aim of the report is to support national patent offices and interested parties in developing countries with information that can serve as guidance for the examination of the claims contained in relevant patents or patent applications.
In the past decade, openly licensed photographs of faces on Flickr have been used to train AI facial recognition systems without the photographers being fully aware of this type of re-use of their works. Open Future launched a survey to understand how photographers who share their work under CC licenses feel about this.
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