"Several open-content organizations wrote to President Biden and argued that your proposed TRIPS Waiver should cover not just patents, but also copyright and other intellectual property rights. These organizations ask that you include copyright simply because it may apply to software, medicine labels, manuals, or 'tools' associated with vaccines."
"The letter fails to address the importance of these protections to the economy, trade, and employment, the limitations placed on protections to ensure a balanced system, and how copyright protection facilitates the very innovation, creativity, and knowledge sharing that will make it possible for us to end this once in a lifetime pandemic."
"The inclusion of copyright is both unsubstantiated and unwarranted, and would impose devastating consequences on American creators, businesses and workers, while doing nothing to advance the objective of combatting COVID."
Senator Thom Tillis sent his fourth letter to USTR Katherine Tai opposing the expansion of the proposed TRIPS Agreement intellectual property waiver to include copyright protections. The letter responds to open-content organizations including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Wikimedia, which urged President Biden to include copyrights in the waiver, citing applications to vaccine-related software, medicine labels, and manuals. Tillis argues that including copyright is unsubstantiated and unwarranted, contending it would devastate American creators, businesses, and workers while failing to advance pandemic response objectives. He emphasizes that copyright protections are essential to the economy, trade, employment, and innovation.
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