The Centre on Knowledge Governance (CKG) was launched in front of a packed audience on Dec 3rd at the Geneva Graduate Institute, featuring top government representatives, professors and civil society ...

Patriota, who also steered the conclusion of a complex Development Agenda at WIPO years earlier, said when he stepped into these latest talks, he noticed “huge issues of trust”, with sides suspicious ...

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, ...

In Part I of this blogpost, I briefly set out the procedural history of the copyright reform process that led to the Presidential Referral of the Bill to the Constitutional Court. I also briefly ...

Member states delivered opening statements and deliberated on the progress, substantive provisions, and method of work on the draft broadcasting treaty text. This blog post summarises positions and ...

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 ...

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) held its General Assembly (GA) this week, including a review of the progress and recommendations of the Standing ...

During the presidential campaign, the Heritage Foundation organized Project 2025, which produced a 925-page plan for transforming the federal government if Donald Trump were elected. Trump disavowed ...

Last semester, PIJIP Director Sean Flynn hosted a series of online webinars on the Right to Research in International Copyright Law. PIJIP’s YouTube channel has ...

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, ...

On 21 and 22 May 2025, the South African Constitutional Court heard the matter of Ex Parte President of the Republic of South Africa: In re Constitutionality of the ...

Edtech platforms play an increasing role in higher education, affecting academic labour, complicating academic ownership of teaching materials, and impacting educators’ academic freedoms. A recent ...