Bill of the Month June 2022: H.R. 3035 – Preventing Foreign Attempts to Erode Healthcare Innovation Act
The Big Picture FreedomWorks is excited to announce H.R. 3035 and S.1683 – Preventing Foreign Attempts to Erode Healthcare Innovation Act as our Bill of the Month for June…
Stop the WTO TRIPS Waiver!
Biden needs to be stopped before Americans’ IP rights are endangered. Please tell your elected officials to oppose China and the World Trade Organization. Tell them to stop Biden’s IP…
The Biden Administration Must Support American Innovators
The Big Picture The United States made history by developing a COVID-19 vaccine in record time under Operation Warp Speed. Many health experts and media pundits did not believe that…
NAFTA Reform Must Better Protect Intellectual Property
As the Trump administration seeks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico, a key issue for U.S. trade negotiators is better and more enforceable protections…
Regulatory Agencies Exploit Unintended Consequences of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Regulatory agencies have entered the space of copyright law and have tipped the balance of the intellectual property system. Now, it is somehow unclear that agency regulations designed to protect…
A Hidden Threat to Online Freedom: The Lost Balance of Fair Use and Intellectual Property
The current imbalance of our intellectual property system allows copyright law to strangle free speech and innovation. Ideally, the intellectual property system would strike a balance between the rights of…
Copyright, Technology, and Reform
Today marks the end of Copyright Week, an opportunity to examine the current system of copyright and consider opportunities to reform a system that many view as dysfunctional and a…
Court Rules to Protect Fair Use
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a ruling on the always blurry “fair use” concept in copyright law, that stands to reduce nuisance suits and open new…