From Pfizer’s 10-K report, section on Risk Factors, for fiscal year ended December 31, 2012.
Number of words in Item A1: 7790
Compulsory licensing of patents: 63
Counterfeit products: 126
Pricing Pressures and Government Regulation: 604
Foreign Exchange and Interest Rate Risk: 324
Global Economic Conditions: 382
Prohibition against the use of federal funds for reimbursement of erectile dysfunction medications: 50
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Below is the final version of the conclusions from SCCR 26 (followed at the end with a short KEI commentary).
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World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR)
Twenty–sixth Session
Geneva, December 20, 2013
Conclusions
Protection of Broadcasting Organizations
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SCCR 26 December 20, 2013 afternoon: workplan discussion
After 5 days of diplomatic if not collegial meetings (at least in plenary, I do not really know what is going on in informals), the last day afternoon session is quite tense. The conclusions have been drafted (I briefly saw a leaked version) and the group coordinators have met with the Chair.
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Discussions regarding an “International legal instrument in whatever form on limitations and exceptions for educational teaching and research institutions and persons with other disabilities” 12/20/13
Friday December 20, 2013 10am to 1pm
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Lending! Hot topic here! Seriously, this is now really about the core service, function, mission of libraries: lending. For many of course this topic, this exception, is the fundamental exception that makes or break the project.
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Topic #2 Reproduction and safeguarding of copies (3 to 5pm).
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This morning the WIPO SCCR is going through the list of the following topics:
Topic #1 Preservation
Topic #2 Reproduction and safeguarding of copies
Topic #3 Legal Deposit
Topic #4 Library Lending
Topic #5 Parallel Importations
Topic #6 Cross-border uses
Topic #7 Orphan works, retracted and withdrawn works, and works out of commerce
Topic #8 Limitations on Liability of libraries and Archives
Topic #9 Technological Measures of Protection
Topic #10 Contract
Topic #11 Right to translate works
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Here is the US intervention during the discussion on limitations and exceptions for libraries and exceptions:
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On the afternoon of day 3 of SCCR 26, the proposed broadcasting treaty is finally “behind” us or at least the negotiations over the proposal are interrupted until next SCCR April 28 to May 2, 2014.
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This was delivered this morning, by Shira Perlmutter of USPTO.
United States’ Opening Statement on Exceptions and Limitations SCCR 26 December 18, 2013
* The United States starts with the recognition that exceptions and limitations are a critical element of a balanced and vibrant copyright law regime.
* A combination of strong protections for authors, and appropriate exceptions and limitations on their rights, together serve to further copyright’s goals of encouraging creativity, innovation, and learning.
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