In 2023, the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) has elected to continue conducting its Special 301 Review process virtually, with no in-person hearing, as in the years prior to 2020. In this virtual process, after stakeholders have submitted… Continue Reading
The text of 1971 Berne Convention Appendix on Special Provisions Regarding Developing Countries is available here: (html) These are excerpts from the records of the 1971 diplomatic conference where the Appendix was discussed: Views of governments and NGOs on the… Continue Reading
The text of the 1967 Protocol for Developing Countries in the Stockholm Revision of the Berne Convention is available here (html). What did the 1967 Protocol do? As a bid to encourage newly independent developing countries to join the Berne… Continue Reading
(This timeline is part of a larger project at KEI regarding an evaluation of the 1971 Appendix to the Berne Convention on “SPECIAL PROVISIONS REGARDING DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.) In 1970, Charles F. Johnson wrote “The Origins of the Stockholm Protocol, 18… Continue Reading
(This html text may contain from errors from an OCR scan. Official copies of the text and a meeting report are also attached at the end of this note. See also the timeline regarding the origins of the 1967 protocol.) U.N.T.S.… Continue Reading
The 1967 Stockholm Revision of the Berne Convention Protocol Regarding Developing Countries This could be referred to as the forgotten access to knowledge treaty. The text of the 1967 Protocol for Developing Countries in the Stockholm Revision of the Berne… Continue Reading
The Berne Convention revisions for limitations and exceptions to copyright 2012:1 KEI Research Note August 2012. Revised June 18, 2017. This research note reports on the evolution of each copyright exception found in the Berne Convention for the Protection of… Continue Reading