Knowledge Commune, in collaboration with the Justice Party, successfully mobilized the members of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea to introduce this resolution. Resolution urging temporary waiver of certain provisions of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights to tackle COVID-19 pandemic Date: 4 April 2021 Bill No.: 2109314 Proposed …
🔶 Date and Time: 24 March (Wednesday) 6-8 pm KST 🔶 Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81971276211?pwd=NEsvTHE3VDNZQkxGaTFUaExGNmpRUT09 (Simultaneous interpretation between Korean and English is provided) 🔶 Moderators: Heesob Nam (Knowledge Commune), Haejoo Chung (Korea University) 🔶 Speaker: Professor Thomas Pogge Having received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard, Thomas Pogge is Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs and founding Director of …
🔶 Date and Time: 10 March (Wednesday) 6-8 pm KST, 8-10 pm Melbourne time 🔶 Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89744813191?pwd=eVVON0I3NlVvam02UjArSElyTFN1UT09 (Simultaneous interpretation between Korean and English is provided) 🔶 Moderators: Heesob Nam (Knowledge Commune), Haejoo Chung (Korea University) 🔶 Speaker: Professor Susan Sell Susan K. Sell is a RegNet Professor. She earned her PhD in Political Science …
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought us an unprecedented impact in all dimensions of our lives. To tackle this situation, scientists and civil activists around the globe worked hard to bring an eventual cure to this pandemic – vaccines. Although the global community, along with the WHO, has fought for public production and equitable distribution of …
COVID-19 brings about another inequality – vaccine inequality. As evidently revealed by figures of “39 million v. 25“, 39 million vaccine doses had been administered in high-income countries, low-income countries have been given only 25 doses. The Director General of the World Health Organization called this “a catastrophic moral failure”, but the reality is the …
The following statement was released on June 3, 2012 by tens of civil society organizations including Knowledge Commune. On May 29, 2020, the World Health Organization called governments, non-governmental organizations, scientists, researchers, and civil societies for a solidarity to action for equitable global access to COVID-19 health technologies. We endorse and welcome the WHO’s Solidarity …
According to the incentive theory of intellectual property law, an exclusive right granted to intellectual property stimulates further innovation and creativity. In the face of COVID-19 crisis, we don’t have therapeutic and vaccine. Rapid innovation in responding COVID-19 is more urgent than ever. Then, we have to grant, in accordance with the incentive theory, greater …
The spread of Coronavirus was discovered by collaborations of researchers not by researchers’ competition or race to monopoly right. Unlike intellectual property rights on health technologies, copyrighted materials which are related to COVID-19 have been widely and voluntarily shared. This open access movement is expanded to other materials such as online educational materials and distance …