The World Intellectual Property Organization’s General Assembly finished the opening statements of Member States and is now moving toward its substantive work. This note includes quotes of some of the ...

Her comments opened by describing “a strange paradox” between the significant and growing participation of member states and observers in the Committee’s meetings, which are indeed among the most ...

Nobre suggests a series of urgent measure to tip the balance back in favour of libraries and their users, and ultimately in ...

We commend the SCCR’s adoption of the Work Program in SCCR 43 to progress toward the mandate. That Work Program contains innovative modalities of the kind Ms Forbin may have been referring to, ...

In this report , WIPO casts itself as the leader of the review of ICANN’s Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy, or “UDRP,” yet as pointed out in the PIJIP comments, the role of WIPO raises key structural ...

Sean Flynn and Talia Deady The World Intellectual Property Organization’s General Assembly finished the opening statements of Member States and is now moving toward ...

Sean Flynn and Talia Deady The World Intellectual Property Organization’s General Assembly finished the opening statements of Member States and is now moving toward its substantive work. This note ...

Toward Action with Respect to the Limitations and Exceptions Regime At WIPO SCCR 37, a group of regional experts, beneficiaries, and practitioners affected by copyright limitations and exceptions will ...

Who has the ability to take language data from African communities and develop an AI tool? Anyone with the capability can do that. And you’ll find that there are certain jurisdictions that have more ...

In Part I of this blogpost, I briefly set out the procedural history of the copyright reform process that led to the Presidential Referral of the Bill to the Constitutional Court. I also briefly ...

Sean Flynn, Director, PIJIP At this year’s Creative Commons (CC) Global Summit in Mexico City, a group of CC members “identified a set of common issues and values” on copyright and artificial ...

The unprecedented Covid-19 (Covid) virus has brought to the forefront many challenges associated with exclusive rights, information sharing, and innovation. How do we get effective diagnostics, ...