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articles · Social Network Platforms in Brazil: The Videolog Case
24/4/2008 16:37 · 32 votes · 2 comments
Nine months before YouTube's launching, another online videos service was being born: Videolog.tv, a Brazilian website that was built on an open business model. Mostly used by people connected to local young urban cultures, like skaters, filmmakers and Parkour practitioners, Videolog is now increasing the bet it has always placed on community issues.
Actually, they do prefer...
articles · Pipeline patents, compulsory licensing and the costs of AIDS treatment in Brazil
17/2/2008 07:06 · 40 votes · no comments
More than 200,000 HIV positive people receive anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) at no cost from the Brazilian government. However, the sustainability of this AIDS Programme is being threatened by the high prices of the patent protected medicines: the universal distribution policy costs the Health Ministry about US$1 billion per year – 80 percent of which is spent only on six out of the...
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calendar· 2nd Preparatory Seminar for IGF - Internet Governance Forum
6/9/2007 11:10 · no comments
"Who governates -- and how is governed -- the Internet as we know?"
* Rights and freedom on the Internet * Physical infrastructure, network neutrality and interconnection costs * Logical infrastructure * Privacy *
The 2nd Preparatory Seminar for Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will gather experts together in a debate on the themes related above. Those topics are some of the...
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articles · Comparative Study of Copyright in Brazil, India and South Africa
by Rebecca Kahn, iCommons reporter · voted on 23/6/2008 08:54 · 45 votes · no comments
This article is an introduction to the BISA Copyright Review project, a comparative project being run by FGV, The Alternative Law Forum and iCommons.
An Introduction
By Lawrence Liang
Any study that attempts to investigate three of the most important countries from Asia, Latin America and Africa has a rather heavy representational burden placed on it. Before embarking on...
articles · No remedy for a thousand prescriptions?
by Prashant · voted on 14/3/2008 04:26 · 46 votes · no comments
Medicinal discovery,
It moves in mighty leaps,
It leapt straight past the common cold
And give it us for keeps.
~Pam Ayres
Towards the close of his recent documentary ‘Sicko’ (2007), Michael Moore smuggles five 9/11 rescue workers over to Cuba on a boat to see if he can get them the medical aid they need, but cannot afford in the U.S. In one stirring scene, a single-mother...
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articles · No one needs to die of HIV/Aids any more – in theory
by Tobias Schonwetter · commented on 8/2/2008 23:16 · 29 votes · 2 comments
This month, iCommons’ resident copyright columnist, Tobias Schonwetter, deals with the interrelation between access to medicine and HIV/Aids. He argues that patent law appears to be the crucial area of law in this respect but suggests that the role of copyright law should not be underestimated.
South Africa has clearly become a home-away-from-home for me over the last couple...
articles · Brazilian Limitations and Exceptions to Copyright: Impacts on A2K
by Paula Martini · commented on 1/12/2007 04:06 · 48 votes · 2 comments
The majority of Brazilians simply do not know much about copyright. The Brazilian population in general knows that copyright exists, but actual copyright rules are not well recognized. When asked to take a guess if a certain act of reproduction is against the law, many Brazilian nationals would probably give a correct answer, but actual knowledge of the law – its text and possible...
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