The advent of generative AI has unsettled the basic assumptions of copyright law. AI systems now routinely ingest vast amounts of copyrighted material—books, music, journalism, artwork—, in order to ...

How the Leaked TPP ISDS Chapter Threatens Intellectual Property Limitations and Exceptions ...

Over 30 legal academics from current or potential future Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiating countries wrote to United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk today. The letter, the ...

WIPO General Assembly Meeting on SCCR Expresses Consensus for Progress on Broadcast and L&E Instruments ...

Washington, DC — For the first time today, research and education organizations around the world are joining the call for the World Trade Organization (WTO) to temporarily suspend its rules on ...

[Jorge Contreras] Broad public concern over the availability of equipment, diagnostics and therapies needed to address COVID-19 has led numerous companies and institutions to pledge their intellectual ...

A unique, expert-led workshop on ethical data scraping was organized by Professor Niva Elkin-Koren and Dr. Maayan Perel and hosted by the Shamgar Center of Digital Law and Innovation, Tel Aviv ...

Dissatisfied with the exclusive right to set the price at which copies of their works are first sold, copyright holders have been trying, for over 150 years, to bolster the resale prices at which ...

[1] The goal of the MFN rule is to “replace the frictions and distortions of power-based (bilateral) policies with the guarantees of a rules-based framework where trading rights do not depend on the ...

The Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University Washington College of Law will host a public seminar on intellectual property in the Trans Pacific Partnership ...

Note: PIJIP has announced the Fifth Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, to be held at American University in Washington, D.C. in September, 2018. Click here for the full ...

A group of intellectual property professors (around 90 as of this writing) led by Mark Lemley, David S. Levine, and David G. Post have delivered a letter to Congress urging rejection of the PROTECT-IP ...