A lawsuit filed against six major academic publishers alleges that restrictive practices that maximize profits at the expense of scholars and the public violate U.S. antirust laws (see Reuters ). The ...
In this blog post, leading Design Law Professor Sarah Burstein argues that the negotiating draft of the WIPO Design Law Treaty contains a little noticed provision, buried in its r ...
A White Paper on Proposed Revisions by the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA), S. 2140, published by Joshua D. Sarnoff and Charles Duan, critiques the 2023 legislation which seeks to revise the ...
A recent Datysoc article (Spanish language) discusses an ongoing dispute in Uruguay over whether a copyright exception for computational analysis should be included in a copyright modernization bill.
The UK government has signed the first-ever international treaty to regulate artificial intelligence (AI), as part of its efforts to prevent potential misuse of the technology. Alongside the EU, US, ...
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) draft Design Law Treaty (DLT) is analyzed by three international design law professors in a video seminar on “What is at Stake in the Design Law ...
A study by German authors’ group, Initiative Urheberrecht, argues that AI training falls outside the scope of the EU’s exception for uses of copyrighted material for text and data mining and that ...
In 2018, a fire in the building of the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro almost completely destroyed its historical collection, which had accumulated over about two hundred years. In 2021, ...