Peter Decherney recently published in the NY Times an article on this matter.http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
The Supreme Court will review a case and decide whether or not an American Act dated from 1994 is legal or not. This Act restores the copyright of works that are already in the public domain.
Let's wait and see what happens.
Thursday 6 October 2011
Friday 22 July 2011
Sharing Patents to Wipe Out AIDS
The New York Times recently published this:
Sharing Patents to Wipe Out AIDS
By TINA ROSENBERG
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/sharing-patents-to-wipe-out-aids/?hp
Sharing Patents to Wipe Out AIDS
By TINA ROSENBERG
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/sharing-patents-to-wipe-out-aids/?hp
Wednesday 6 April 2011
Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
There has been a lot of noise regarding the Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The negotiation process was obscure and it was performed on a closed-door basis. Leaks of drafting documents revealed a severe law framework that would level up the playing field for intellectual property rights enforcement, for instance.
Moreover, NGO´s and companies such as Google manifested their disagreement against the ACTA text. Likewise, scholars throughout the world also condemned ACTA, both in its negotiating process and in its substance.
All these circumstances, created a negative atmosphere on the public against the adoption of such Agreement.
ACTA was adopted on December 2010, however according to MATĚJ MYŠKA the final text prooved to be a "light" version of the previously leaked hardcore drafts.
Thus, we can conclude that the major lesson for future international negotiations involving intellectual property is that they must be transparent and they should try to incorporate ALL relevant actors, such as the BRIC countries and NGOs.
For the paper see:
ACTA: EVIL INSIDE?, MATĚJ MYŠKA, forth-coming presentation paper at the 2011 BILETA Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
http://www.law.mmu.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ACTA-EVIL-INSIDE.pdf
Moreover, NGO´s and companies such as Google manifested their disagreement against the ACTA text. Likewise, scholars throughout the world also condemned ACTA, both in its negotiating process and in its substance.
All these circumstances, created a negative atmosphere on the public against the adoption of such Agreement.
ACTA was adopted on December 2010, however according to MATĚJ MYŠKA the final text prooved to be a "light" version of the previously leaked hardcore drafts.
Thus, we can conclude that the major lesson for future international negotiations involving intellectual property is that they must be transparent and they should try to incorporate ALL relevant actors, such as the BRIC countries and NGOs.
For the paper see:
ACTA: EVIL INSIDE?, MATĚJ MYŠKA, forth-coming presentation paper at the 2011 BILETA Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
http://www.law.mmu.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ACTA-EVIL-INSIDE.pdf
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