We submit this comment in response to the World Intellectual Property Organization request in relation to its work on the impact of artificial intelligence (Al) on ...

In the heated copyright discussions over generative artificial intelligence, the term “text and data mining” is sometimes used interchangeably with “machine learning” or the “ingestion of material” to ...

Time is of the essence. The last 25 years have seen an unprecedented expansion of the concentrated legal authority exercised by intellectual property rights holders. This expansion has been driven by ...

Natasha Karanja & Chebet Koros Strathmore University Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CC-BY) Link When evaluating the copyright ecosystem within the African continent, ...

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 ...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to a new copyright act that updates the country’s exceptions and limitations for the digital environment. Most ...

[Burcu Kilic and Luigi Palombi] Over the past few years, patent-eligible subject matter has become one of the hotly debated areas of patent law in several countries. Even in the U.S., the Supreme ...

The reform of copyright law in South Africa, particularly for the library and educational sectors, has been a long and bumpy road since 1998. Our copyright law is 41 years old – and broken! The ...

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, ...

The Israel Ministry of Justice has issued an important opinion concluding that the use of copyrighted materials in the machine learning (ML) context is permitted ...

The MEEPA is a tentatively concluded trade agreement between Malaysia and EFTA (the European Free Trade Association of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland) that may soon be signed by the ...

A world leader in public health, Australia introduced plain packaging of tobacco products. Julia Gillard – the Prime Minister of Australia at the time responsible for plain packaging – has observed: ...