SCCR 32 Day 2: What is missing from the broadcasting treaty discussion?
At the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights Twenty-seventh Session in Geneva (April 28 to May 2, 2014) the discussions on the proposed broadcasting treaty included the following safeguard articles that are totally missing from today’s discussions:
http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/copyright/en/sccr_27/sccr_27_2_rev.pdf
SCCR 32 Day 4 Africa Group Statement regarding support for L&E for education, research and people with other disabilities
On the last day of the SCCR 32, the group statements on the topic of education, teaching, research and people with other disabilities are not surprising. Group B and CEBS do not want to engage in normative work. Grulac and the Africa Group are eloquent and remind all of us that development depends on education and knowledge. The Africa Group is also requesting the Chair provide a chart of the issues to be duscussed as well as regional meetings on the topic.
SCCR32, Day 5: African Group statement on copyright limitations and exceptions for educational and research institutions
African Group Statement on Agenda Item 7
Thirty-Second Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR)11 May 2016
Thank you Mr. Chairman,
Nigeria has the honour to deliver this statement on behalf of the Africa Group.
Transparency of patents on medicines and other technologies
2016:1 KEI Briefing Note
Transparency of Patent Landscapes
April 25, 2016
At an April 12, 2016 WIPO seminar, Reed F. Beall and Amir Attaran presented a paper, “Patent-based Analysis of the World Health Organization’s 2013 Model List of Essential Medicines,” which includes the following odd comment:
SCCR 31 Day 3 on rights for broadcasting and cablecasting
to get the live transcript:
http://www.streamtext.net/player?event=WIPO
code: sccr31
webcast: http://www.wipo.int/webcasting/en/includes/newplayer/Player_EXT_roomN.htmlThe SCCR was supposed to start today with the Rights to be granted to broadcasters.
III. RIGHTS TO BE GRANTED/PROTECTION
ALTERNATIVE A
Broadcasting organizations shall have the right to authorize or prohibit the retransmission of
their broadcast to the public by any means.
ALTERNATIVE B
Broadcasting organizations shall have the right to prohibit the unauthorized retransmission of
Continue ReadingSwitzerland pressures Colombia to deny compulsory license on imatinib
Ambassador Livia Leu, Head of the Bilateral Economic Relations Division and Delegate of the Federal Council for Trade Agreements, Switzerland
OCR version of leaked EU document on : “A digital single market strategy for Europe”
Yesterday, Politico published this story:
Leaked digital single market’s ‘evidence file’ reveals Commission’s ambitions. Documents show policy came before evidence for cybersecurity measures.
By ZOYA SHEFTALOVICH 20/4/15, 1:29 PM CET Updated 21/4/15, 11:33 AM CET
(http://www.politico.eu/article/leaked-digital-single-market-strategy-evidence/)
Continue ReadingKEI Special 301 supplemental comments: Compulsory Licensing not restricted to “Emergencies” or “Measure of Last Resort”
At the February 24, 2015 USTR hearing on Special 301, KEI asked to provide supplemental comments on R&D for the record, and KEI was separately asked by USTR to provide comments on online pharmacies, and by DHHS to comment on the relationship between emergencies and compulsory licensing. (The KEI page on Special 301 is here: /ustr/special301).
New leak of TPP consolidated text on intellectual property provides details of pandering to drug companies and publishers
For more information:
James Love, Knowledge Ecology International
email: james.love@keionline.org, +1.202.361.3040The May 16, 2014 version of the consolidated negotiating text for the Intellectual Property Chapter for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement is a long, complex document that taken as a whole is designed to expand and extend monopolies on knowledge goods, including in particular publisher-owned copyrights, patents on inventions, and monopoly rights in data used to register new drugs, vaccines and agricultural chemical products.
Senator Wyden in 2012, on access to the TPP text
In 2012, as a member of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Ron Wyden was a strong advocate for providing the public with access to the TPP negotiating text. Now, as Chairman, the Senator has been silent on the public’s right to the text. This is an example of Wyden in 2012. Has his position changed?
Timestamp and notes on Wyden comments on need for transparency in TPP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUYCSSdhEC8
