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Sean Flynn

@profseanflynn.bsky.social
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Director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) @ AU Law, interested in intellectual property, trade, and global social justice.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 30/03/2026
The World Trade Organization failed to extend a ban on e-commerce tariffs after four days of talks in Cameroon.
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WTO Talks End With No Deal to Extend E-Commerce Tariff Ban
The World Trade Organization failed to extend a ban on e-commerce tariffs at its 14th ministerial conference, as at least one member opposed US efforts to make the moratorium permanent.
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Thiru Balasubramaniam @thirugeneva.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
TWN: "Colombia, Bangladesh and India pushed for any extension on e-commerce to be linked to the TRIPS non-violation complaints (TNVCs) moratorium, which prevents WTO members from bringing non-violation complaints under the TRIPS Agreement on intellectual property."
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MC14 Collapses as U.S. Strategy Derails Yaoundé Negotiations
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João Pedro Quintais @jpquintais.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
🚀 Registrations are now open for the 2026 Institute for Information Law (IViR) Summer Course on International Copyright Law & Policy! Join us for an intensive 5-day program on international copyright law, featuring an incredible lineup of experts 🔗 Details & registration: www.ivir.nl/courses/icl/
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Summer Course on International Copyright Law & Policy 2026 - IVIR
The Institute for Information Law organizes an annual intensive post-graduate course on international copyright law and policy. The face of copyright law and policy changes continuously, mostly due to...
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pijip.bsky.social @pijip.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Join us Thurs, Sept 25 @ 6PM ET for the 14th Annual Jaszi IP Lecture at AUWCL! Prof. Wend Wendland (former WIPO TK Director) speaks on the new WIPO Treaty on TK & Genetic Resources. Reception to follow, register here: loom.ly/eLvPm9o #PIJIP #JasziLecture
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pijip.bsky.social @pijip.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Join us for the in-person launch of the Centre on Knowledge Governance after the Peter A. Jaszi Lecture—Sept 25, 6PM ET at AU Washington College of Law. Hosted by PIJIP & the Geneva Graduate Institute. Register: loom.ly/1xbPZRQ
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Geneva Centre on Knowledge Governance @knowledgegov.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
What's the future of Traditional Knowledge, given resistance to the WIPO TK Treaty? Join Wend Wendland at American University & online on 25 Sept and hear more about the Centre on Knowledge Governance. Registration: t.ly/DnrRK @pijip.bsky.social @profseanflynn.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social
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Sean Flynn @profseanflynn.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I invite you to follow the new Centre on Knowledge Governance, a partnership of PIJIP and the Geneva Graduate Institute which I am launching this week Thursday at the Jaszi Lecture at AUWCL. bsky.app/profile/know...
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 15/06/2025
Researchers find Llama 3.1 recalls large parts of popular copyrighted books, possibly weakening AI industry claims that such memorization is fringe behavior (Timothy B. Lee/Understanding AI) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Sean Flynn @profseanflynn.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
WIPO IGC negotiation on the mandate on whether and how to continue the negotiation of an instrument on traditional cultural expressions and traditional knowledge is hitting bumps, with a proposal by the US to restrict the mandate to just one meeting per year. infojustice.org/archives/46454
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US Proposes Limiting IGC Meetings and Mandate | infojustice
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Sean Flynn @profseanflynn.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
US Copyright Office AI Report pt.3: "transformativeness is a matter of degree, and ... will depend on the functionality of the model and how it is deployed. On one end of the spectrum, training a model is most transformative when the purpose is to deploy it for research" p.46
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James Packard Love @jamielove.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The @who.int is trying to conclude a long negotiation on pandemic treaty, today. This addresses one of the outstanding issues.
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steph @starrysteph.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
!! CALL TO ACTION !! #Booksky please join me in the fight to save our libraries. EveryLibrary is working hard to save the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is the federal agency charged with distributing Congressionally approved funds to state libraries and grant recipients.
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Sean Flynn @profseanflynn.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I would be shocked if the @wipo.int Broadcast Treaty is recommended for a diplomatic conference by #sccr46 The text appears to be a long way off from the consensus described by the chair in SCCR 45. It is not carefully limited to signal piracy and has many provisions on post-fixation activities.
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Sean Flynn @profseanflynn.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
American University's IP program @pijip.bsky.social has been ranked #6 in the USA.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The United States Government has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process. The Government's contention otherwise, and its argument that the federal courts are powerless to intervene, are unconscionable.
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communia @communia.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
As part of the A2K Coalition, we are deeply concerned that the draft broadcast treaty currently under discussion at @WIPO is still too broad, encroaching the Public Domain and preventing public interest uses. #SCCR46 More: communia-association.org/publication/...
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IFLA @ifla.org · 07/04/2025
Work at #WIPO has potential to ensure that #libraries can support access to knowledge, research, education & culture for all without fearing to break the law Find out more about the issues on the table at #SCCR46 this week in Geneva! bit.ly/4jrsor7
An image of a dartboard with text: IFLA.org Maintain focus, priorities delivery: IFLA's s goals for SCCR46
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Education International @eduinternational.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Grace Nyongesa, from Kenya’s University Academic Staff Union, delivers a clear message: 🔊 “Broadcast materials are vital for quality education— in times of crisis and every day. Teachers and researchers need fair access." #GoPublic 📡 Don’t cut the signal! eiie.io/4ifLRtS #SCCR46 #WIPO
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Sean Flynn @profseanflynn.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
India #SCCR46 "There is a need for thorough consideration of the impact of ... fixation and post fixation rights. The idea of providing mandatory exceptions and limitations should be explored."
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Sean Flynn @profseanflynn.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Nigeria @wipo.int #sccr46 "The implications of this particularly regarding its scope of rights, limitations and exceptions and its potential impact on access to information must be fully understood and carefully weighed."
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Sean Flynn @profseanflynn.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Africa Group @wipo.int #sccr46 "we note that discussions remain complex and Member States continue to hold divergent views on the scope and nature of the protection. ... extending exclusive rights to broadcasters particularly beyond the protection of the signal would have unintended consequences."
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Sean Flynn @profseanflynn.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
US @wipo.int #sccr46 "the US remains concerned the draft continues to exceed the GA mandate for a signal based approach to protect broadcasters in the traditional sense and accordingly in our view significant work remains to be done on this text."
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Sean Flynn @profseanflynn.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
African Group @wipo.int #SCCR46 "The African Group is looking forward to discussing textual proposals on implementing the work plan on LNEs contained in document SCCR/43/8REF."
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Sean Flynn @profseanflynn.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
APG @wipo.int #SCCR46: "Most members of the group are of the view that the scope of the Broadcast Treaty should be confined to the protection of broadcasting and cablecasting organizations in the traditional sense and that the Treaty should be narrowly focused on a signal-based approach."
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Sean Flynn @profseanflynn.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
#SCCR46 @wipo.int "GRULAC is favorable to holding a diplomatic conference which will allow us to find a satisfactory end to this large process and allow the Committee to focus on emerging issues, notably challenges and opportunities is thrown up by the developing digital environment.”
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Sean Flynn @profseanflynn.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Chair Facilitator: "our view as drafters is that this document is mature enough to warrant a convocation of a Diplomatic Conference. There may be other contentious issues. But those contentious issues can be thrashed out during a Diplomatic Conference." #BroadcastTreaty @wipo.int #SCCR
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Ben Waber @bwaber.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Next was a wide-ranging talk by @profseanflynn.bsky.social on AI and the right to research at @cambridgelaw.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=avbr... (7/12)
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AI and the Right to Research: CIPIL Spring Conference 2025
YouTube video by Cambridge Law Faculty
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Ben Cashdan @jambeni.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
AI for Good? As the world grapples with how to tame AI's worst effects, we reflect on how some AI could promote health and culture in the Global South. 7 April 6pm CET. Join blackstripe.live/SideEvent @pijip.bsky.social @profseanflynn.bsky.social @jamielove.bsky.social @wipo.int
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Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 03/04/2025
Good morning! I had some thoughts on the "reciprocal tariff" madness from last night.
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A Few Answers To My Questions about Trump's Reciprocal Tariffs
Last week, I asked a lot of questions related to what we might expect from Trump's "reciprocal tariffs." Now we have a few answers in the Executive Order and a fact sheet from yesterday. Let's go thro...
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Sean Flynn @profseanflynn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I will be speaking tomorrow at the KEI open workshop and roundtable on the broadcast treaty tomorrow. Join us at www.keionline.org/sccr46 @pijip.bsky.social
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Roundtable on negotiating text for a WIPO Broadcast Treaty, April 3, 2025 - Knowledge Ecology International
KEI will host an informal roundtable on the WIPO broadcast treaty text that will be discussed at the WIPO SCCR 46 meeting from April 7 to April 11, 2025. The meeting documents are available from WIPO ...
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Sean Flynn @profseanflynn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
More attacks on libraries. time.com/7273583/nava...
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Naval Academy Library Removes Hundreds of Books in DEI Purge
Pulling the books off the shelves is another step in the Trump Administration’s far-reaching effort to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion content from federal agencies.
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Sean Flynn @profseanflynn.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
IMLS is being shut down. All workers were refused access to the building. All grants to the nation's libraries and those that help them (like @pijip) will likely be canceled. bookriot.com/imls-gutted/
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The Institute for Museum and Library Services Was Just Gutted
DOGE fired all IMLS employees and closed down their emails. It is assumed all funding for 2025 coming from the federal agency will not be happening.
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Sean Flynn @profseanflynn.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
My sense is that the White House is testing the theory that one declassifies material by the act of sharing it. "In his mind." DoD Sec had authority to declassify. He did so by sharing it. Therefore it was no longer classified at the moment it was shared. QED
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Brian L. Frye @brianlfrye.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I just posted Ipse Dixit From the Archives 114: Barbara Ringer on Implementing the Copyright Law: What Librarians Should Know (1977). Many thanks to @zvirosen.bsky.social for providing this recording! shows.acast.com/ipse-dixit/e... @levendowski.net
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From the Archives 114: Barbara Ringer on Implementing the Copyright Law: What Librarians Should Know. | Ipse Dixit
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Thiru Balasubramaniam @thirugeneva.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Group B proposed a sharing session at #SCT49 on graphical user interfaces (GUIs). @wipo.int
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James Packard Love @jamielove.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Group B at WIPO SCT/50 meeting pushing for graphical user interface IP protections.
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James Packard Love @jamielove.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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SCT 48 - Highlights from WIPO discussions on graphical user interfaces - Knowledge Ecology International
As mentioned in a previous blog, Under the topic of industrial designs, the 48th session of the WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT) ...
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James Packard Love @jamielove.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Among the areas we have been concerned about are GUI standards that would apply to operating automobiles, the controls on medical devices used in hospital settings, particularly emergency rooms, standards that make a GUI more accessible to persons with disabilities....
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James Packard Love @jamielove.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Standards for a GUI lower the costs of training users, lower the costs for developers, and reduce the lock-in associated with software and systems when end users find it costly and confusing to switch to competitive products or services. @thirugeneva.bsky.social
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James Packard Love @jamielove.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Our statement today at the WIPO SCT. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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SCT/48 2025, March
KEI Statement at SCT/48, March 26, 2025 The Africa Group proposal for a Study on the Impact of Design Protection for Graphical User Interface (GUI) Designs on Innovation is welcome, and should includ...
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Sean Flynn @profseanflynn.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
My statement @wipo.int #SCT supporting the AG call for a study on design protection for GUIs -- citing the work of @design-law.bsky.social docs.google.com/document/d/1... @christinefarley.bsky.social @jamielove.bsky.social @thirugeneva.bsky.social
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SCT statement march 26 2025
Statement of User Rights Network on Design Protection for Graphical User Interfaces Sean Flynn March 26, 2025 Professor Sean Flynn delivered the following statement at the World Intellectual Property...
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Sean Flynn @profseanflynn.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
First day statements in GUIs at WIPO. Africa Group asks for a study before adopting a joint recommendation. Sounds like a good idea. @design-law.bsky.social @christinefarley.bsky.social @thirugeneva.bsky.social
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Thiru Balasubramaniam @thirugeneva.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
EU: "However, areas of divergence were also highlighted which present opportunities for working towards developing more unified and comprehensive approaches to GUI design protection on a global scale." @wipo.int @jamielove.bsky.social @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social @profseanflynn.bsky.social
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Sean Flynn @profseanflynn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
@design-law.bsky.social design law protections on user interfaces are being discussed tomorrow at @wipo.int Standing Committee on Trademarks. What do we need to know? @jamielove.bsky.social @thirugeneva.bsky.social
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Sean Flynn @profseanflynn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
In the WTO: “Without prejudice to the U.S. view that the tariffs imposed pursuant to Section 232 are issues of national security not susceptible to review or capable of resolution by WTO dispute settlement ... the United States accepts the request of Canada to enter into consultations.”
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Sean Flynn @profseanflynn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Schirru, Luca; Vyas, Lokesh; Jawara, Haddija; Ruthes Gonçalves, Lukas; McGee, Katie; Misto, Yara; and Flynn, Sean Michael Fiil, "Documentary History of the Broadcast Treaty in the SCCR (Global Version)" (2025). Joint PIJIP/TLS Research Paper Series. 145. digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/research/145
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Documentary History of the Broadcast Treaty in the SCCR (Global Version)
The objective of this study is to systematically map all meetings of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) and the General Assemblies (GA) of the World Intellectual Property Or...
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Sean Flynn @profseanflynn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Flynn, Sean and Schirru, Luca, "Objectives and Principles for an Instrument on Limitations and Exceptions: (Some) Relevant Excerpts and Proposals" (2025). Joint PIJIP/TLS Research Paper Series. 146. digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/research/146
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Objectives and Principles for an Instrument on Limitations and Exceptions: (Some) Relevant Excerpts and Proposals
The Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) has been mandated by the 2012 General Assembly to work toward “an appropriate international legal instrument or instruments (whether through model ...
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Sean Flynn @profseanflynn.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I have the honor of speaking at this event on 30 years of TRIPS. I will speak on copyright, which was not as contentious as patents but is part of a long arc reaching through WIPO work today.
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