MPAA and BREIN take down 51 torrent sites
Stichting Bescherming Rechten Entertainment Industrie Nederland (BREIN) announced that it and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) convinced hosting companies to take down 51 torrent sites...
View ArticleNew Essay Collection: Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property
Gaëlle Krikorian and Amy Kapczynski, editors. Complete Text: Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property. Contributors: Ahmed Abdel Latif, Philippe Aigrain, Jeffrey Atteberry, Yochai...
View ArticleEU Academics Opinion on ACTA Criticized by European Trade Negotiator at EC...
An opinion on ACTA drafted by European academics identifies the most critical aspects of ACTA and shows how it clashes both with EU law and with the enforcement provisions of the TRIPS Agreement. FFII...
View ArticleSummary of Sixth Global Congress Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy
IP owners, government enforcement agencies, and WIPO met in Paris last week for the Sixth Global Congress Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy. Three themes that were repeated throughout the meeting...
View ArticlePIJIP and American University Center for Social Media Release Code of Best...
PIJIP’s Peter Jaszi and the Center for Social Media’s Pat Aufderheide, co-facilitated by UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Urban and Poetry Foundation’s Kate Coles, have just released a Code of Best Practices in...
View ArticleUSTR Considering Pharmaceutical Pricing Restrictions in TPP; Refuses to...
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...
View ArticlePOLITICO: States Fear Trade Deal Will Mean Higher Drug Prices
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...
View ArticleSenate Judiciary Committee to Hold Hearing on “Targeting Websites Dedicated...
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...
View ArticlePresident Obama Establishes Two Advisory Committees for IP
The President has issued an executive order establish committees to advise the IP Enforcement Coordinator in the implementation of the Joint Strategic Plan required by the PRO IP Act. IP Enforcement...
View ArticleTechDirt: iiNet Wins Again: Australian Appeals Court Says ISP Not Responsible...
Mike Masnik has a good blog about a court ruling in Australia in which the court agreed with ISPs that it makes no sense for them to make legal determinations instead of courts: http://bit.ly/fscWBl
View ArticleUSTR Publishes 2011 Trade Policy Agenda and 2010 Annual Report
USTR has published its annual report, compiled with assistance from the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Health and Human Services, Justice, Labor, and State. The report, describes the...
View ArticleUSTR Still Considering Whether To Issue ACTA Signing Statement
Inside US Trade reports that Stan McCoy says USTR has not ruled out issuing a signing statement with ACTA: “We certainly don’t exclude the idea of issuing some kind of statement in connection with the...
View ArticleSSRC Releases “Media Piracy in Emerging Economies”
New York (March 7 2011)—Today, the Social Science Research Council released the first independent, large-scale study of music, film and software piracy in emerging economies, with a focus on Brazil,...
View ArticleMPEE Study Signals that IP for Media and Medicines Cause Similar Problems for...
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...
View ArticleSenate Finance Committee Hears USTR Testimony on FTAs and IP Enforcment in...
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...
View ArticleChina Daily: Improved IPR protection to support innovation
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...
View ArticleCOMPUTER WEEKLY: US presses punitive copyright deal on trade partners
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...
View ArticleUN Report Recommends Greater Use of TRIPS Flexibilities for Access to Medicines
UNAIDS, UNDP, and the World Health Organization have released a policy brief describing the flexibilities in TRIPS available to increase access to medicines, including compulsory licenses, parallel...
View ArticleU.S. Customs Officials Release Statistics for Border Seizures in 2010
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that the number of seizures of infringing goods at the U.S. border increased 34% in 2010, though the overall...
View ArticleFederal denies IP owner’s injunction, says Photobucket has no duty to police...
BNA reports that “An online service that permits users to upload, store, and share images has no duty to ensure those files are noninfringing, even if it has received Digital Millennium Copyright...
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