NGO-letter-on-proposed-LnE-agenda-change-SCCR39-10.21 Chair-proposal-NEXT STEPS 10-21-19 October 21, 2019 RE: Chair Proposal on Next Steps for Agenda Items 5 and 6 Dear Delegates at WIPO SCCR 39: We are shocked by the attached proposal of the Chair to change the title of… Continue Reading
On Monday, 21 October 2019, Knowledge Ecology International delivered the following opening statement at the 39th session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR 39). The discussions on limitations and exceptions, and the studies commissioned by… Continue Reading
This is the statement the United States of America delivered on behalf of the US government at the WIPO General Assembly, on the work program for the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR). The most detailed discussion concerned… Continue Reading
On Wednesday, 2 October 2019, Knowledge Ecology International delivered the following statement on Agenda item 15, Report on the SCCR. WIPO General Assembly Agenda item 15, Report on the SCCR Statement of Knowledge Ecology International With respect to the broadcasters… Continue Reading
On Tuesday, 1 October 2019, Knowledge Ecology International delivered the following opening statement at the 2019 WIPO General Assembly. Thank you Chair. KEI opposes any further work at the SCCR on a broadcast treaty, given the confusion over the objectives… Continue Reading
Today, in his address to the U.K. Labour party conference, Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn made the following statement on drug patents and prices. Yesterday I met Luis Walker, a wonderful nine-year-old boy. Luis is living with cystic fibrosis. Every day… Continue Reading
KEI letter to FTC regarding interoperability remedies to address unlawful and anti-competitive actions by Facebook Today KEI sent a letter to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), asking that the FTC require Facebook to extend interoperability remedies to third party… Continue Reading
On Agenda item 11.7 – Access to medicines and vaccines, KEI offers the following comments on the transparency resolution. 1. Transparency should not be controversial. Policy makers and the public need to have better evidence in order to support policies… Continue Reading
KEI was one of 13 groups to support Public.Resource.Org in this important litigation over the ability of state governments to “leverage copyright to raise access barriers to important sources of legal information.” Charles Duan for the R-Street Institute is the… Continue Reading