World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
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As Digital Rights Advocates Mobilize Around The TPP Negotiations, Process Becomes Even Less Transparent
The 15th round of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement negotiations in New Zealand concluded this week, locking out civil society participation in an unprecedented way. [...] The chapter that EFF and other digital rights groups around the world find alarming covers intellectual property. [...] Read More »
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Cory Doctorow 'There Is A War Coming: The Future Regulation Of General Purpose Computation'
Organised by The Centre for Law, Society and Popular Culture.
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger — the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of Tor Teens/HarperCollins UK novels like FOR THE WIN and the bestselling LITTLE BROTHER. Read More »
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Historic Milestone For Rights Of Readers As UN Negotiators Finalize Treaty For The Blind
Member states of the United Nations concluded the draft of an international treaty this week that gives people with visual and reading disabilities better access to copyrighted works. Read More »
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Major Patent Pool Opens Up Research On Neglected Disease
Research on drug development for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), tuberculosis and malaria will receive a boost from a major initiative launched by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) last week (26 October). Read More »
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Why Are Facebook, IBM, Microsoft And Oracle Backing The Fight *Against* The Blind?
One of the more disgraceful examples of the inherent selfishness of the copyright world is that it has consistently blocked a global treaty that would make it easier for the blind and visually impaired to read books in format like Braille... Read More »
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