everywhere (to reduce opportunities for new variants to
develop). I see this as a good opportunity for discussion on how IP works in
this area and how to do it better. Lessons from the OA movement may or may not
be relevant, but understanding how to produce and distribute quality vaccines
and other medicines is absolutely essential for informed discussion in this
area.
GOAL may or may not be the right venue for this discussion. Advice on this
would be welcome.
best,
Dr. Heather Morrison
Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa
Cross-appointed, Department of Communication
Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa
Principal Investigator, Sustaining the Knowledge Commons, a SSHRC Insight
Project
sustainingknowledgecommons.org
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From: Ulrich Herb
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Sent: Friday, September 3, 2021 7:36 AM
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Cc: Heather Morrison
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Subject: Re: [GOAL] COVID IP waiver request: interesting but not entirely
informed?
Attention : courriel externe | external email
perhaps this might be of interest: in its new research framework programme
Horizon Europe the European Commission states this
(https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/common/agr-contr/general-mga_horizon-euratom_en.pdf,
p. 102) ...
***
Where the call conditions impose additional exploitation obligations in case of
a public
emergency, the beneficiaries must (if requested by the granting authority)
grant for a limited
period of time specified in the request, non-exclusive licences - under fair
and reasonable
conditions - to their results to legal entities that need the results to
address the public
emergency and commit to rapidly and broadly exploit the resulting products and
services at
fair and reasonable conditions. This provision applies up to four years after
the end of the
action.
***
As there was no such statement in the model grant agreements of earlier
framework programmes, I interpret this regulation a direct reaction to the
COVID pandemic...
Best regards
Ulrich
- Am 2. Sep 2021 um 22:07 schrieb Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.com<mailto:nemow...@gmail.com>:
Il 01/09/21 23:25, Heather Morrison ha scritto:
> The WHO letter mentions but does not request what I suggest is a more likely
> approach to avoiding IP interference with addressing the pandemic in the
> short term: compulsory licensing.
This is the official reason used by the EU to block the waiver (or at
least it was until Biden came out in support of it and force everyone to
change tune).
https://www.keionline.org/36300<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.keionline.org%2F36300=04%7C01%7C%7C6047b050d87042b8099f08d96f0ab903%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C637662914109834028%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000=CbuQ5jo0tThbTcZzFWUZrhIvAp01tUxnMUJV3MwrchM%3D=0>
It's true that the USA could easily implement compulsory licensing
overnight, but for other countries it can prove more difficult. There
are dozens of articles in the KEI website on this matter, I'm unable to
summarise them. It's highly recommended reading.
Communia, Wikimedia and others have also supported the extension of
waiver to copyright, see most recently:
https://www.communia-association.org/2021/03/22/communia-supports-the-wto-trips-waiver-for-covid-19/<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.communia-association.org%2F2021%2F03%2F22%2Fcommunia-supports-the-wto-trips-waiver-for-covid-19%2F=04%7C01%7C%7C6047b050d87042b8099f08d96f0ab903%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C637662914109843985%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000=COgxq9m0iE%2B9d5zL%2FDERmUuczfzB1fevEp0zMdNWPJk%3D=0>
Best regards,
Federico
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