In his Jan. 20, 2026 speech at the World Economic Forum , Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney recognized that "multilateral institution...

My latest post on WIPOMonitor.org  notes that the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is at the forefront of international organ...

The Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) has launched the publication of “ Intellectual Property and Access to Sci...

The government of Argentina has submitted an  important proposal  in current negotiations towards an international instrument on limitations...

In September, the Delhi High Court handed down a groundbreaking  judgement  dismissing Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, ...

A draft  study presented last week at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is of particular relevance to Canada.  The revisi...

Discussion of the internationalization of copyright limitations and exceptions, such as expanded exceptions to copyright for libraries, educ...

Sci-Hub, the "Napster for academics", is a project based in the notion that scientific knowledge should be made freely available. ...

Here is the poster for my upcoming talk for students at Ryerson University's School of Creative Industries' CREA T.O. speakers'...

My new book, I nternational Copyright and Access to Knowledge ,   is now available from Cambridge University Press . The principle of Ac...

Some interesting proposals will soon be under discussion at the World Intellectual Property Organization that could free libraries, archives...

Big data has a lot to offer, from curing disease  to fostering economic development  to fostering transparency .  At the same time, from go...

Jim Fruchterman reports that EU countries are standing in the way of provisions that would allow libraries to make or import an accessibl...

Jamie Love of Knowledge Ecology International reports that Canada, along with 16 other countries, is backing measures that would allow the ...

On Monday June 17, a diplomatic conference will be held to negotiate a treaty/international instrument that would allow accessible-format wo...

This week at WIPO member-states are gathering for the twice-yearly meeting of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) ...

My op-ed, "The A2K problem: copyright, accessibility and the future of copyright in Canada," appears in today's Hill Times . ...

My report, Intellectual Property Issues in ICT4D , is now available online. Prepared for Canada's International Development Research Ce...