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Compulsory licensing for expensive medicines: KCE report

SpicyIP

The Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE) recently released an interesting report titled ‘Compulsory licensing for expensive medicines’. This report comes at an opportune moment. Ordinarily, patentees voluntarily decide whether or not and on what conditions to grant licenses to third parties. Natco Pharma Ltd.

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CMA Releases Report on Music Streaming Market

IPilogue

On November 29th, The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) released its final report of its market study into music and music streaming. According to the report, streaming services are the primary method of music distribution for labels and artists, with 39 million active users and over 138 billion streams in the UK in 2021.

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LES 2021 Royalty Survey Reports: Licensing Market Update, a Look Back, and an LES Royalty Valuation Method in the Making

IP Watchdog

On September 26, Licensing Executives Society (LES) USA and Canada published the LES High Tech Sector Royalty Rates & Deal Terms Survey Report 2021. Not only do LES Royalty Survey Reports provide an update on the licensing market in the past few years, they look into the dynamics of market evolution since the 2000s.

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3 Count: Notorious Markets 2022

Plagiarism Today

First off today, Chris Cooke at Complete Music Update reports that the United States Trade Representative has released its annual list of “notorious markets” that identifies countries that, according to it, are failing to take adequate action to prevent copyright and other kinds of intellectual property infringement.

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The USPTO and USCO Delivered a Report to Congress on IP Issues with NFTs – Maintains Existing IP Regime

Intellectual Property Law Blog

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) and the United States Copyright Office (“USCO”) delivered a report to Congress entitled Non-Fungible Tokens and Intellectual Property on March 12, 2024 (“Report”). While the Report is comprehensive, it does not recommend any new action to address IP issues with NFTs.

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Utilizing the Annual Copyright License Across Your Organization

Velocity of Content

The Annual Copyright License (ACL) from CCC helps minimize an organization’s infringement risk by providing a consistent set of global reuse rights across millions of publications from thousands of rightsholders that complements existing publisher agreements, subscriptions, and other content purchases.

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E&Y Report on The Rise of Music Publishing India: Reflections from an IPR Perspective

SpicyIP

These are some highlights from the recently released report from E&Y titled ‘ The Rise of Music Publishing in India ’ based on figures by the Indian Performing Right Society (IPRS) (the copyright society concerned with music publishing). speech in the Parliament while introducing the Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2012.

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