PIJIP has reviewed copyright exceptions for research in all WIPO Member states, identifying the degree to which the Members' laws allow for reproduction and sharing for the purpose of text and data mining. Read more
100+ leading legal scholars and practitioners from around the world.
The Network has members from countries on all continents, including representatives from the Global North and South.
May 18-19: User Rights Network Symposium - Protecting Copyright User Rights from Contractual Override
June 12-16: Access to Knowledge in the Multilateral System
American University’ Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, Knowledge Ecology International and the Access to Knowledge Coalition recently hosted a technical briefing on the legal and policy issues at stake in the 43rd meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights.
The Network was formed in 2011 by a group of leading copyright academics from around the world. The objective of the Network was originally framed in the Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, which called for “discussion of employing ‘open-ended’ limitations in national copyright legislation, in addition to specific exceptions.”
The work of the Network focuses on the publication of research and provision of technical assistance to explain how adopting more open, flexible and general user rights – both by adopting fair use-like open, flexible, general provisions, and by increasing the openness and flexibility of specific (non-general) exceptions – can promote social and economic interests.
In 2018, the network began working with advocates at WIPO on a proposed Treaty on Education and Research Activities (TERA).
