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24.08.2010 por Koichi Kameda

GTPI questions patent application of Truvada®

The Group fights undeserved patent.

On August 20th, the Working Group on Intellectual Property (GTPI) of the Brazilian Network for the Integration of Peoples (REBRIP), integrated by the organizations ABIA, Conectas Human Rights, GAPA / SP, GAPA / RS, GRAB, Gestures – Seropositivity Communication and Gender, GIV, IDEC, and Fenaf RNP + / SLS, submitted pre-grant opposition to the technical examination of the patent application (PI0406760-6) of the drug Truvada ®, requested by Gilead Sciences Inc. Subsidies on technical examinations allow interested parties to present arguments that challenge a patent application. The organizations argued that the request should be denied for not meeting the requirements of patentability of the Industrial Property Law (9279/96).

Biotecnologia e saúde pública

23.08.2010 por Koichi Kameda

No Safe Harbors in Argentina

By VINOD SREEHARSHA
NY Times

BUENOS AIRES – Google and Yahoo won an appeal of a lawsuit brought by an Argentine entertainer, Virginia Da Cunha. Her name and some photos showed up in search results connected with sex sites. The appeals court ruled Google and Yahoo weren’t liable for defamation for third-party content.

The victory was a welcome one, but the companies face more than a hundred similar suits in Argentina. But while Internet companies struggle in authoritarian countries over what’s in search results, legal experts say that the Argentine cases are a an example of why developing countries need clear laws governing Internet content. Most of Latin America lacks legislation comparable to the United States’ Safe Harbors act that protects technology companies from liability over third-party content.

Direitos da Internet

open access

16.08.2010 por Joana Varon

A2K Brasil launches new website

Questioning the actual balance (or lack of it) between protection of intellectual property and access to knowledge, A2K Brasil have just launched a new and more interactive website.

Latelly, some themes have been prominent at the Brazilian scenario: the development of a collaborative Draft Bill Proposition on Civil Rights Framework for Internet in Brazil, the process of revising the Brazilian Copyright Act and a proposal for a study on limitations and exceptions to patent protection presented by the Brazilian government at the Standing Committee on the Law of Patents. But the effervescence of the debate cannot be restricted to it.

Biotecnologia e saúde pública | Categoria não definida | Conhecimentos tradicionais | Direitos autorais | Direitos da Internet | OMPI | Política Internacional | Propriedade Intelectual

05.08.2010 por Joana Varon

EFF video on privacy and right to access the web

From EFF

In celebration of 20 years of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Nina Paley created this short animation (sound by Greg Sextro)

Around the world, the copyright monopoly lobby wants Internet service providers to monitor their customers, filtering content and kicking people who share culture off the Internet. They’re pushing for so-called “three strikes” laws that would require ISPs to cut off the Internet connection of anyone who shares illegally three times.

Watch out for Internet access as a civil right!

Direitos da Internet | Não categorizado

04.08.2010 por Joana Varon

English translation of the Brazilian Copyright Draft Bill

From Blog do gpopai

Brazil is currently conducting a broad reform of its copyright law. The purpose is to bring the law up to date with the digital age, to strengthen the rights of authors and consumers and to address issues like private copying, format shifting, remixing, access for education, preservation of cultural heritage, orphan works, the collective rights management system and payola.

Direitos autorais | Política Internacional | Propriedade Intelectual