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Intellectual Property and the African Continental Free Trade Area: Lessons and Recommendations for the IP Protocol

[Caroline B. Ncube] Abstract: This paper aims to explore the contours of the future intellectual property (IP) protocol of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement... This paper frames the IP protocol within the architecture of the AfCFTA Agreement, meaning that it will follow the structure of other protocols and will be guided by the Agreement’s foundational principles and
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New Survey on Access Barriers to Text and Data Mining Research

[Patricia Aufderheide] A new survey explores the problems researchers in various sectors experiences in attempting to use text and datamining (TDM), and you can help. TDM is a basic feature of daily digital life, for good and ill. It is what enables search; it drives targeted advertising; it feeds predictive policing; and increasingly for scholars it is a crucial tool
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Can Negotiations at the World Health Organization Lead to a Just Framework for the Prevention, Preparedness and Response to Pandemics as Global Public Goods?

[Viviana Muñoz Tellez] This paper advances that WHO Member States, having agreed to the objectives of advancing equity and solidarity for future pandemic prevention, preparedness and response, now must operationalize these. The paper offers suggestions for the ongoing WHO processes of: 1) review of recommendations under examination by the Working Group on Strengthening WHO Preparedness and Response to Health Emergencies,
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Access To Medicines and Pharmaceutical Patents: Fulfilling The Promise of TRIPS Article 31bis

[Ezinne Miriam Igbokwe and Andrea Tosato] Abstract: ... The most contentious [TRIPS] issue has long been the impact of the TRIPS patents regime on access to medicines. Our Article contributes to this debate by illuminating an oft-overlooked facet of TRIPS: Article 31bis. Enacted following the Doha Declaration of 2001, this provision was designed to enable Members with inadequate manufacturing capabilities
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Webinar on Artificial Intelligence, Text- and Data Mining, and Big Data in Kenya

[Electronic Information for Libraries] EIFL is delighted to partner with the Kenya Copyright Board (KECOBO) for a webinar on emerging technologies of Text and Data Mining (TDM), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Big Data. The webinar is organized in cooperation with the Kenya Libraries and Information Services Consortium (KLISC), EIFL’s partner in Kenya, and the Right to Research in International Copyright
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MARRAKESH TREATY: GETTING THE DETAILS RIGHT

[Electronic Information for Libraries] By the end of 2021, over 100 countries had joined the Marrakesh Treaty for persons with print disabilities, confirming its place as WIPO’s most successful treaty of recent times. In most countries, the next step in the legal process is for the treaty’s provisions to be implemented into national law (known as domestication), typically by introducing
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