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28.09.2010 por Koichi Kameda

Burdened With Brackets, Biodiversity ABS Protocol Needs Political Will To Survive

By Catherine Saez

IP-Watch

Substantive progress eluded the negotiators of a draft protocol on biodiversity access and benefit sharing last week in Montreal, according to participating sources. The third attempt at finding consensus on key aspects of the text was unsuccessful and negotiations will carry on at the major United Nations meeting on biodiversity next month in Japan.

The United Nations Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) Interregional Negotiating Group on Access and Benefit Sharing met from 18-21 September with the hope of concluding negotiations on “all articles containing outstanding issues,” according to a “scenario note” [pdf] from the co-chairs Timothy Hodges of Canada and Fernando Casas of Colombia.

Conhecimentos tradicionais | Política Internacional

21.09.2010 por Joana Varon

Brazilian statements at WIPO General Assembly on balancing Intellectual Property protection for development

Via Keionline

The Permanent Representative of Brazil, Roberto Azevedo, delivered the following statement to the 48th session of the WIPO General Assembly. The intervention was delivered in Portuguese; below is the English translation.

Direitos autorais | OMPI | Política Internacional | Propriedade Intelectual

21.09.2010 por Koichi Kameda

Sign on letter to Indian Prime Minister regarding India-EU FTA

Here is a message from Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+) requesting organizations and individuals across the world to sign on the letter addressed to Indian Prime Minister regarding the TRIPS Plus provisions included in India-EU FTA. The Free Trade Agreement is in negotiation now and if India accepts the IP provisions the consequences will be particularly negative to generic production and the supply of essencial medicines to developiong countries.

Biotecnologia e saúde pública | Política Internacional

20.09.2010 por Koichi Kameda

Teaching material on how to conduct patent searches for medicines

The issue of how to search for patents on medicines is regularly raised by NGOs, government bodies and procurement agencies.

Given the absence of teaching materials on this subject, a step-by-step guide on how to conduct patent searches on medicines was written by Tahir Amin, co-Founder and Director of Intellectual Property Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge (I-MAK). The guide was written on behalf of the World Health Organization (South-East Asia and
Western Pacific Regions).

According to the author, the guide was primarily written for beginners, but it may also be useful for those who want to build on their basic understanding of the subject. Although by no means exhaustive, the guide attempts to provide as much information as possible on how to navigate currently available patent office databases and patent
office journals.

The guide is available here (pdf).

Source: I-MAK

Biotecnologia e saúde pública | Não categorizado

16.09.2010 por Joana Varon

Red alert on net freedoms: EU liberals join Sarkozysts in online repression

Source: La Quadrature du Net

Paris, September 16th 2010 – The Gallo report on copyright enforcement -from the pro-Sarkozy MEP, Marielle Gallo- will be voted on Wednesday, September 22nd in the European Parliament. Surprisingly, the Liberal ALDE group has tabled its own alternative resolution, a bad and almost equally repressive text. Under blatant influence of the producers and publishers’ lobbies, this political move from the liberals actually aims at facilitating the vote of the original Gallo report.

Direitos da Internet | Política Internacional | Propriedade Intelectual

15.09.2010 por Joana Varon

A virtual counter-revolution

Source: The economist

The first internet boom, a decade and a half ago, resembled a religious movement. Omnipresent cyber-gurus, often framed by colourful PowerPoint presentations reminiscent of stained glass, prophesied a digital paradise in which not only would commerce be frictionless and growth exponential, but democracy would be direct and the nation-state would no longer exist. One, John-Perry Barlow, even penned “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”.

Direitos da Internet | Política Internacional

p2p

08.09.2010 por Joana Varon

Brazilian civil society launches a proposal to legalize non-commercial file-sharing

Text extracted from:  Vgrass

On the final day of the public consultation on Brazil’s copyright bill, all wakes of the legal, creative, civil society and industrial sectors were abuzz with activity. Among the last minute contributors was an impressive initiative of 28 academic, educational, consumer, musical and digital cultural organizations, joined in the Network for Copyright Law Reform. In their “fifteen contributions for access to knowledge” they propose, among others, an exception for educational non-profit use and a term reduction from 70 to 50 years after the death of the author.

An overlapping constellation of civil society and art actors focussed their submission on a single issue: file-sharing. Under the slogan “Compartilhamento legal! R$3,00 de todos para tudo,” this network is proposing to legalize non-commercial file-sharing in exchange for a levy on broadband Internet access. The idea is nearly as old as peer-to-peer file-sharing itself. It has been tested in technology and in law making a few times.

It is a remarkable initiative in terms of access to knowledge, but the political pressure is huge and many are the polemical points of the mechanism proposed, what makes it a very interesting case to keep our eyes on and participate.

Read more: http://www.vgrass.de/

Go to the initiative: http://www.gpopai.usp.br/compartilhamento/

Direitos autorais | Direitos da Internet | Propriedade Intelectual

reformalda

02.09.2010 por Koichi Kameda

CTS/FGV contributes to public consultation on the reform of Brazilian copyright law

The Center for Technology and Society at Fundação Getulio Vargas (CTS/FGV) sent its contribution to the online consultation on the reform of Brazilian copyright law. The iniciative was conducted by Ministry of Culture which is in charge of the reform. After more than four years of intense debate, a proposal for the bill was finally submitted to public consultation on 14 June 2010. Deadline for submissions was 31 August 2010.

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