Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property

The Constitutional Court of South Africa has issued an order in a case brought by Blind South Africa against the Parliament. The order finds provisions of the Copyright Act to be unconstitutional due to "infringement of the rights of persons with persons with visual and print disabilities."

Most recently, Siddiqui was an Attorney Advisor in the Intellectual Property Enforcement Branch at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, where her practice focused on anti-counterfeiting.

PIJIP Director Sean Flynn has been appointed Visiting Scholar at the University of Amsterdam Institute for Information Law (IViR), and Senior Research Associate at the University of Cape Town IP Unit.

The new White House memorandum makes "articles resulting from all U.S. federally funded research freely available and publicly accessible by default in agency-designated repositories without any embargo or delay after publication.” 

The panel will explore whether national, international and European human rights frameworks contain the elements necessary to construe a right to research out of existing rights and norms, and how researchers perceive and navigate copyright barriers to their work. 

A new book by PIJIP Senior Policy Fellow Kathryn Kleiman has been published -  Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer.