SCCR 17 final agreed upon text on persons with reading disabilities
Below is the final agreed upon text for the SCCR 17 on the issue of access for persons with reading disabilities. There are four sentences, in one paragraph.
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WIPO SCCR: Chilean intervention on Exceptions and Limitations
The representative from the government of Chile (on behalf of Chile, Nicaragua, Brazil and Uruguay) delivered this very powerful statement this afternoon at WIPO during the Seventeenth Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR).
Chile proposed that the WIPO secretariat distributes a questionnaire on copyright exceptions and limitations between all WIPO Member States in order to continue with the information gathering process. Chile remarked on the good experience with the APEC survey on exceptions and limitations.
KEI comments on the EC’s Green Paper on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy.
KEI has filed comments on the EC’s Green Paper on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy. Here are pdf and odt copies. The html version follows below. Comments of Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) on the GREEN PAPER: Copyright in the Knowledge… Continue Reading
WIPO SCCR/17 day one, on copyright L&E
I’m in Geneva at WIPO for the 17th SCCR meeting. The first two days have presentations of four WIPO studies of copyright limitations and exceptions. Each study gets a half day. The first presentation was by Sam Ricketson.
WIPO Study on Limitations and Exceptions of Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Environment, (SCCR/9/7), April 5, 2003. prepared by Mr. Sam Ricketson, Professor of Law, University of Melbourne and Barrister, Victoria, Australia
The Ricketson presentation was very clear.
The Medical Innovation Prize Fund (S.2210, 110th Congress) and the WTO TRIPS Agreement
I have been asked to elaborate on the relationship between the Medical Innovation Prize Fund (S.2210, 110th Congress) and the WTO TRIPS Agreement.
For centuries, innovation inducement prizes have been suggested as a mechanism to stimulate investments in a wide range of topics. (See, for example, Selected Innovation Prizes and Reward Programs, KEI Research Note 2008:1). During most of this period, the patent system has also existed.
CNIB on proposed WIPO treaty for reading disabled
According to a note sent to KEI, CNIB in Canada considers the WBU proposal for a WIPO Treaty for the reading disabled to be “the most critical component of achieving true equality through the development of a ‘Global Library’!. This is a letter that Jim Sanders, the President and Chief Executive Officer of CNIB, sent to the Canada delegation to WIPO.
PhRMA giving more to democrats these days
According to the WSJ today PhRMA is spending $13.2 million in an “ad buy to prop up 28 Congressional candidates, many of them vulnerable and all but three of them Democrats.” The Journal points out
Misc notes on Compulsory Licensing of Patents
Worth reading first
March 8, 2007, Recent examples of the use of compulsory licensing of patents, revised March 31, 2007.
Misc
June 9, 2007. When customs authorities may allow infringing goods to be imported into the United States.
WIPO patent committee embarks on positive agenda
After a hiatus of three years, the WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP) met for its 12th session on June 23, 2008 to June 27, 2008. Given the collapse of the talks to initiate a Substantive Patent Law Treaty (SPLT) to harmonize patent law with respect to prior art, novelty, inventive step and grace period, even the most prescient of WIPO watchers were at a loss in prognosticating the outcome of the WIPO SCP. Continue Reading
2008 KEI Comments on ACTA Anti-Counterfeiting Treaty
Comments of Knowledge Ecology International on the Proposal for Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
Submitted to United States Trade Representative
Request for Public Comments, via email: acta@ustr.eop.gov
March 20, 2008 Continue Reading
Request for Public Comments, via email: acta@ustr.eop.gov
March 20, 2008 Continue Reading