Note: there is an update on the final text in a more recent blog, here. The text below reflects the state of play at 5:19 pm. Friday, 1 June 2018 Geneva 17h19 The “Zombie treaty” for broadcasters may be much… Continue Reading
Proposal from Senegal and Congo to include the Resale Right (droit de suite) in the Agenda of Future work by the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights of the World Intellectual Property Organization KEI supports further work on the… Continue Reading
Proposal for Analysis of Copyright Related to the Digital Environment KEI proposes that the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights request WIPO’s Chief Economist to attend the next session of the SCCR to discuss, with member states, the types… Continue Reading
On Thursday, 31 May 2018, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) made two recommendations in relation to WIPO’s draft action plan on educational and research institutions and persons with other disabilities. KEI proposed that the regional seminars for educational and research institutions… Continue Reading
The revised Chair’s text (SCCR/36/6) is very responsive to the broadcasters, and mostly hostile to the civil society groups’ positions, on issues such as term and exceptions, and extending the right to materials delivered over the Internet. One bright spot… Continue Reading
I’m about to deliver this intervention at the WIPO SCCR 36 meeting, as a general statement on limitations and exceptions. We are given 2 minutes. KEI has three points 1. The 1971 Berne Annex, which deals with access for developing… Continue Reading
First: Deferred transmission. What is a deferred transmission? Here are the definitions in Daren Tang’s (the Chair of the SCCR) text of the treaty. Available here: http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/copyright/en/sccr_35/sccr_35_12.pdf: (f) “near simultaneous transmission” means a transmission for the reception by the public… Continue Reading
On May 28, 2018, at the opening of a five day to talks at the 36th WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), 11 civil society and library groups sent a letter to negotiators expressing deep concerns over… Continue Reading
UPDATE: On 29 May 2018, Brazil and India notified the WTO secretariat to be “added to the list of sponsors of the submission circulated in document IP/C/W/643”. (Source: IP/C/W/643/Add.1). On 25 May 2018, the World Trade Organization (WTO) published a… Continue Reading
The below are comments were filed by KEI and HealthGap on May 22, 2018, regarding a proposed NIH exclusive license on patents for the treatment and diagnosis of Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, Asthma, Psoriasis and Biliary Cirrhosis to Precision IBD… Continue Reading