On the eve of a hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, two releases from the research and academic community suggest that the current debate is on the wrong track. First, a new study...
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The TPP chief negotiators took questions from stakeholders this morning in Lima, Peru. There were...
Read MoreEnclosed are the presentation materials of Sharon Treat, State Legislator from Maine, on the US proposal for a TPP chapter restricting pharmaceutical reimbursement programs. Sharon testified that, if applied to the US (unlike...
Read MoreThis briefing paper provides preliminary analysis of the leaked U.S. proposal for an intellectual property chapter in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. What is clear from this analysis is that the U.S. proposal, if...
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Read MoreFor immediate release. By Sean Flynn, sflynn@wcl.american.edu Lima, Peru. Among the US Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) proposals leaked today was a proposed chapter on “Transparency and Procedural Fairness for Healthcare...
Read MoreStatement and FAQ on ACTA and the Constitution Sean M Fiil Flynn Associate Director Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) American University Washington College of Law (202) 274-4157; Cell...
Read MoreAmerican University Washington College of Law’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property is seeking contributions to the online PIJIP Working Paper Series and for a Focus Issue of the American University...
Read MoreIn the fact sheet from USTR on ACTA, which appears to be the document that was being floated to cleared advisors as the “signing statement,” USTR points to four agreements (in addition to GATT) that justify its entry into ACTA...
Read MoreNext week, PIJIP Fellows Bijan Madhani and Michael Vasquez and I will be releasing our study for the EU parliament on the impact of ACTA on access to medicines in developing countries. A draft of the paper was released last...
Read MoreWhen the US signs ACTA tomorrow in Japan, the signing statement is likely to state something like “ACTA is entirely consistent with US law and therefore requires no implementing legislation.” This will be a defense...
Read MoreACTA to Be Signed – But Can it Enter into Force? It has been reported in global press this week that ACTA will be signed October 1 in Japan. http://goo.gl/nC0PL But that does not mean that ACTA actually goes into effect....
Read MoreIt has been reported in the global press this week that ACTA will be signed October 1 in Japan. But that does not mean that ACTA actually goes into effect. ACTA Article 40 states that the “Agreement shall enter into force...
Read MoreHere is some of what we learned at the TPP negotiation in Chicago this week. Transparency will be worse than ACTA. In response to the repeated calls in civil society and academic presentations for TPP negotiators to increase...
Read MoreWith the U.S. round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) underway in Chicago, intellectual property and information policy experts from around the world have released a Washington Declaration on Intellectual...
Read MoreSAVE THE DATE: August 25-27, 2011 American University Washington College of Law 4801 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC, 20016 Please mark your calendars and plan to participate in one of the most important meetings on...
Read MoreFor immediate release. Attribute to Sean Flynn, Associate Director, American University Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, on the decision of the Supreme Court in IMS v. Sorrell:...
Read MoreGeraldine Juarez in Mexico, geraldine@hipertextual.com, reports that the Mexican Congress has approved a resolution asking the president to not sign ACTA. She reports that, in a public hearing after the voting with citizens,...
Read MoreTwo recent news stories on Radio New Zealand covered the potential for a pharmaceutical chapter in the TPP. http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/78135/pharmaceutical-industry-links-with-senators-revealed...
Read MoreIn a video interview from the World Copyright Summit on June 8, Francis Gurry, the Director General of WIPO, makes a (possibly unintended) effort to coop the “positive agenda” terminology of advocates for the development agenda...
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