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The European Parliament has been making its presence felt today. As well as reopening democratic debate around a controversial digital copyright reform proposal by voting against it being fast-tracked, MEPs have adopted a resolution calling for the suspension of the EU-US Privacy Shield. The parliamentarians’ view is that the data transfer mechanism does not provide […]
More than 40 nations gathered this month to update the Wassenaar Arrangement, which governs the international use and sale of cyber weapons.
Despite A Victory on IP, the TPP's Resurgence Hasn't Cured Its Ills | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Update: The official Ministerial statement on the new Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), including the schedule of suspended provisions, was released
A just-leaked draft impact assessment on the modernization of European copyright rules could spell the end for many online services in Europe as we know them. The document's recommendations
When the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was first released in November last year, it included provisions dictating the kinds of penalties that should be available in cases of copyright
One of the defining battles in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations is whether its signatory countries will standardize copyright terms lengths to a minimum term of the life of the author
Whatever else may be going on in the TPP agreement, it has some pretty lousy copyright law hiding in there.
The United States' excessive copyright terms have led to an orphan works crisis in this country. Tens of thousands of books, films, music recordings, and other cultural works across decades have been
While exceptions and limitations for librarians and archives are under negotiation at the World Intellectual Property Organization this week, librarians and archivists called on WIPO delegates to address an issue of contract licences for digital content, which they say often override such exceptions and limitations.
Like most people, I’ve spent most of my life not actually thinking about copyright law. I bought into the idea that copyright “protects” creative works and encourages creativity. …
Intellectual Property chapter of #TPP poses threat to Open Access
Last week, WikiLeaks made public a portion of a treaty that the White House has been secretly negotiating with other nations and 600 special interest...