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Intellectual Property
- A copyright lawsuit threatens to kill free access to Internet Archive’s library of books
- A Simple Guide to Copyright for Librarians: 15 Essential Facts & Tips (US)
- Canada Extends Copyright to ‘Life Plus 70,’ Adding 20 Years
- Conceptualizing A ‘Right to Research’ And Its Implications For Copyright Law: An International and European Perspective
- Copyright Extensions not advisable for developing countries
- Copyright Office Recommends No New Copyright Protections for News Publishers in the United States
- Disney will soon lose copyright to original Mickey Mouse
- Dreamstime Takes Alternative Approach to Copyright Theft
- Education and Copyright: Obstacles to Teaching in The Digital Age
- Exploring the nuances of copyright and patents in a world of machines and artificial intelligence
- Guest Post — UK Law and Artificial Intelligence: UK IPO Issues Problematic Report
- International Copyright Flexibilities for Prevention, Treatment and Containment of COVID-19
- Navigating Copyright for Libraries (planned publication date of book – 22 August 2022)
- New OpenAI Art Program does not Claim Copyright for AI
- Not Fit for Purpose: Libraries Explain How Copyright Failed Libraries during the Pandemic
- Pandemic Boost for Digital Course Materials
- Picasso Copyright Case Reversed: The Complexity Of Fair Use
- Policy brief: Education during COVID-19 and beyond
- Revisiting — Return of the Big Brands: How Legacy Publishers Will Coopt Open Access
- Should You Copyright Your NFTs?
- Study On EU Copyright and Related Rights and Access to and Reuse of Data
- Supreme Court of Canada on Copyright: “Copyright Law Does Not Exist Solely for the Benefit of Authors”
- The End of Journal Impact Factor Purgatory (and Numbers to the Thousandths)
- The fight between authors and librarians tearing book lovers apart
- UK to protect commercial AI data mining from copyright claims
- Unmasking Anonymous Copyright Infringers: Where the DMCA, First Amendment, and Fair Use Meet
- U.S. Copyright Office Finds That Ancillary Copyright May Violate the Berne Quotation Right
- U.S. Copyright Office Rules A.I. Art Can’t Be Copyrighted
- User Rights In WIPO Broadcast Treaty Must Be Strengthened
- Why Is Media Lamenting Disney’s ‘Loss’ of Copyright Instead of Celebrating The Public Domain?
- Workshops/Webinars on Copyright and Related Matters
WTO and TRIPS Waiver
- Ministerial Decision on TRIPS Agreement – adopted on 17 June 2022
- The Covid-19 Trips Waiver and The WTO Ministerial Decision
- TRIPS-Compliant Alternatives for Overcoming Intellectual Property Barriers To Covid-19 Countermeasures
- TRIPS Council welcomes MC12 TRIPS waiver decision, discusses possible extension
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