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Pressenza article , March 2021: The European Citizens' Initiative 'Right to Cure', a coalition of over 200 European civil society organizations from 14 European countries, reached a
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Close Comparison Reveals Negotiators Repeating TPP's Mistakes A secretive trade agreement currently being negotiated behind closed doors could lay down new, inflexible copyright standards across the Asia-Pacific region. If you are thinking of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), think again—we're...
"RCEP fails to improve much on the TPP in areas where it quite easily could; most notably in the language on limitations and exceptions, which fails to require countries to include an equivalent to fair use in their copyright laws.
Finally, the proposed language on related rights for broadcasters is actually worse than the TPP. The TPP negotiators were wise to mostly avoid this topic, being that it is currently still under negotiation at WIPO, whereas RCEP has plunged ahead and sought to enshrine obligations for the protection of broadcasters that remain controversial and untested around the world.
Worst of all is that none of these problems would have come to light if the text of the agreement had not been leaked. Like the TPP before it, the RCEP is being negotiated in a secretive fashion, behind closed doors, without adequate input from Internet users or any other of the stakeholders whose lives and livelihoods it will affect. "
A new OA tool from the French, doai.io. If you've found a live DOI Web link that can only take you to a paywall article, then replacing http://dx.doi.org/ with http://doai.io/ will get a URL that tries to find a free version via BASE. BASE is only middling for finding open access articles. It currently has…
Här kan du ladda ner presentationer från föreläsningar och seminarier. Här finner du de presentationer som föreläsarna har valt att dela med sig av, efter utbildningen.
Sci-Hub is oftenly presented as an illegal way to get access to paywalled research papers, and hence, in some way inferior to the other options, like: - send an email to the authors of the manuscript and ask them to send you a copy; - search Google Scholar, perhaps the paper is available somewhere; etc.…
in recent years IP Professional has gained significant role in innovation industry. Main task of IP professionals is to protect Intellectual property.
"In recent years IP Professional has gained significant role in innovation industry. Main task of IP professionals is to protect Intellectual property. IBM recently reached a target 7000 patents with the help of these professionals."
a study that explains why the copyright system is broken and must be radically reformed.
"Copyright, originally conceived as a tool to protect the author and to provide incentives for him or her to create for the benefit of society, is nowadays more and more perceived as an instrument to the advantage of 'large, impersonal and unlovable corporations'. ... Copyright is increasingly perceived as a right to sanction and punish that prevents the free flow of information and access to knowledge or cultural participation, not as a right that has positive effects for the development of society." (p 85)
Professor Drahos: "So farmers, librarians, educators, cultural innovators, young people who want to culturally innovate, who want to parody for example a trade mark and suddenly find themselves threatened become theyre making fun of somebody. I mean there are so many people that have an interest in this. We live in a networked world. I see more and more networking amongst NGOs. I think there is a growing sense in which we have to realize we are not alone. That we can fight back."
“Generally speaking, Switzerland broadly provides high-levels of IPR protection and enforcement in its territory. Switzerland makes important contributions to promoting such protection and enforcement internationally, including in bilateral and multilateral contexts, which are welcomed by the United States,” the USTR writes in its assessment.
expertkonferens i maj i Frankrike följde upp FNs Farida Shahids FN-rapport. Bl a slogs fast att copyright inte är en mänsklig rättighet
A recent report entitled “copyright policy and the right to science and culture,” presented at the 28th session of the Human Right Council in March 2015 by UN Special Rapporteur Farida Shaheed shed some light on this debate, however. Her report then attracted attention in the European arena in the context of the ongoing copyright reform. In this context, an international group of experts recently commented on it at the University of Strasbourg Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI).
In the report, the right to science and culture refers to Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and Article 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
In addition, “the human right to protection of authorship requires that copyright policy … ensure that authors benefit materially,” said the report. On this ground, the experts rejected the assumption that stronger copyright protection advances the authors’ material interests and drew an important distinction between human authors and corporate rights holders.