134 research outputs found
Intellectual Property and Global Warming: Fossil Fuels and Climate Justice
No full textEngaging in a close analysis of legal and political discourse, this chapter considers conflicts over intellectual property and climate change in three key arenas: climate law; trade law; and intellectual property law. In this chapter, it is argued that there is a need to overcome the political stalemates and deadlocks over intellectual property and climate change. It is essential that intellectual property law engage in a substantive fashion with the matrix of issues surrounding fossil fuels, clean technologies, and climate change at an international level. First, this chapter examines the debate over intellectual property and climate change under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 1992, and the establishment of the UNFCCC Climate Technology Centre and Network. It recommends that the technology mechanism should address and deal with matters of intellectual property management and policy. Second, the piece examines the discussion of global issues in the World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO GREEN. It supports the proposal for a Global Green Patent Highway to allow for the fast-tracking of intellectual property applications in respect of green technologies. Third, the chapter investigates the dispute in the TRIPS Council at the World Trade Organization over intellectual property, climate change, and development. This section focuses upon the TRIPS Agreement 1994. This chapter calls for a Joint Declaration on Intellectual Property and Climate Change from the UNFCCC, WIPO, and the WTO.\ud
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The paper concludes that intellectual property should be reformed as part of a larger effort to promote climate justice. Rather than adopt a fragmented, piecemeal approach in various international institutions, there is a need for a co-ordinated and cohesive response to intellectual property in an age of runaway, global climate change. Patent law should be fossil fuel free. Intellectual property should encourage research, development, and diffusion of renewable energy and clean technologies. It is submitted that intellectual property law reform should promote climate justice in line with Mary Robinson’s Declaration on Climate Justice 2013
The copy/south dossier : issues in the economics, politics, and ideology of copyright in the global south
No full textThe aim of the dossier is to open up debate on the real impact of copyright laws affecting the people of the more than 150 developing countries in the Global South, many of whom have never read a book, have no access to the Internet and are facing an indeterminate future. The dossier highlights issues that are not only unique to the Global South, but also focuses on those issues that affect both sides of the North - South divide. This dossier is addressed to the general public, researchers, educators, librarians, activists, and organizations concerned about access to knowledge who want to learn more about the global role of copyright and, in particular, copyright's largely negative role in developing countries of the global South. In more than 50 articles totalling 215 pages, we, in the Copy/South Research Group, who have researched and debated these issues over the past 12 months, have tried to critically analyse and assess a wide range of copyright-related issues that impact on the daily lives (and future lives) of those who live in the global South
Letting Anarchy Loose on the World: \u3ci\u3eThe Anarchist Cookbook\u3c/i\u3e and How Copyright Fails the Author
No full textThe Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell remains one of the most controversial books in print, even 50 years after its first publication. The story to be told about its ongoing publication can teach us about the politics of authorship, ownership, publication, copyright assignments, the public domain, and the legacies our printed words leave behind. Later in life Powell regretted publishing the book and wished that it would be removed from publication and circulation but stated that he did not own the copyright and so could not control the book. However, even at his death the book remained in print and readily available on the Internet. This article seeks to answer the question of what rights, if any, do Powell’s heirs have regarding the copyright in The Anarchist Cookbook should they seek to pursue his wishes to remove it from the market. While the law may provide a way to achieve this goal, there are two remaining questions: When a work has entered the zeitgeist of a nation, is it possible to remove it from circulation, and would it even make sense to try
Intellectual Property and Global Warming: Fossil Fuels and Climate Justice
No full textBook Chapter: Matthew Rimmer, 'Intellectual Property and Global Warming: Fossil Fuels and Climate Justice' in Matthew David and Debora Halbert (ed.), The Sage Handbook of Intellectual Property, London: Sage Publications, 2014, 727-75
From World Titles to Legal Titles: Re-Imagining Gender Discrimination Policy in Women’s Sports
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Fall pest problems of winter wheat : Russian wheat aphid, barley yellow dwarf, wheat streak mosaic
No full textBulletin no. 780 Moscow, Idaho :University of Idaho, College of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension System, 1995-08-01. Author(s): Halbert, S. E.; Forster, R. L.; Sandvol, L. E.; Quisenberry, S. S.; Hein, G. L
Tainarys myracrodrui Burckhardt and Queiroz 2017
No full textTainarys myracrodrui Burckhardt and Queiroz, 2017 Materials examined. Brazil: São Paulo, Matão, numerous suction trap collected specimens (Burckhardt and Queiroz 2017); other material examined in Burckhardt and Queiroz (2017) – USA: Florida: Polk County: Winter Haven, 22.viii.2019, short suction trap (Kenneth Branch and Robinson Lawrence) (FSCA # E2019-4857) (FSCA, dry mounted). Diagnosis. Description see Burckhardt and Queiroz (2017). Distribution. Brazil (Distrito Federal, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, São Paulo) (Burckhardt and Queiroz 2017). A single specimen was found in a sample from a short suction trap, collected in Winter Haven, Polk County, Florida (Halbert 2019). Host plants. Astronium graveolens Jacq., Myracrodruon urundeuva Allemão (Anacardiaceae). Comments. As far as we know, neither Astronium Jacq. nor Myracrodruon Allemão (Anacardiaceae), the reported hosts in Brazil, occur in Florida. DPI personnel, including the first author, surveyed Schinus terebinthifolia Raddi, (Anacardiaceae) growing near the trap but failed to find any more T. myracrodrui. Spondyliaspidinae Schwarz, 1898 Blastopsylla Taylor, 1985Published as part of Halbert, Susan E. & Burckhardt, Daniel, 2020, The psyllids (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) of Florida: newly established and rarely collected taxa and checklist, pp. 1-88 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (788) on pages 24-25, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.456469
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