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The World Intellectual Property Organization copyright committee has reached an eleventh-hour agreement on a work programme that could help ease access to reading materials for the visually impaired.
On the World Intellectual Property Organization committee on copyright’s final day of weeklong negotiations, the hopes of visually impaired readers and others - librarians, schools - looking for an agreement on copyright exceptions and limitations hang on whether delegates can resolve differences and create a plan for future work.
The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) today announced that David Brennan of AstraZeneca will be its new president, replacing Haruo Naito of pharmaceutical companiy Eisai. They also announced that California-based biotechnology company Amgen has become a member.
Professor Ian Hargreaves of Cardiff University in Wales will lead an independent review of the intellectual property system's promotion of growth and innovation launched by the United Kingdom's Intellectual Property Office on 4 November.
Negotiators of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement will meet again after all to “finalise the legal scrub of the ACTA text” and to solve issues “of a technical nature,” according to recently leaked documents from the European Commission. They also show…
While piracy remains an oft-cited problem for the creative content industry, it is the 'Byzantine maze' of copyright law that is stalling monetisation of new business models better designed to deliver content in the digital age, panellists at the World Intellectual Property Organization said last week.
Influential copyright scholar Larry Lessig yesterday issued a call for the World Intellectual Property Organization to lead an overhaul of the copyright system which he says does not and never will make sense in the digital environment.
With the Republican Party taking control of the United States House of Representatives in yesterday's election, some changes are expected in intellectual property policymaking, according to observers.
Disagreement over the mandate of a newly-formed World Intellectual Property Organization committee resulted in a vote to suspend the meeting with no conclusions last Friday evening.
A substantive review of a rarely-used amendment to the World Trade Organization intellectual property rules and enforcement trends that may threaten multilateral trade system topped the agenda this week in the Council on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).
The world's future food security could ride on the ability to save the wild cousins of crops usually cultivated for human consumption, says a Food and Agriculture Organization report out today.
Two new civil society observers were admitted last week to the Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) though whether that represents a cultural shift for the organisation or simply a procedure that has now been followed depends on who you ask. Meanwhile, a new vice secretary general prepared to take over for the first time in nearly 10 years.