Pedro Paranagua – Brazil’s Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), a higher education institution comprised of four Schools (Economic, Business, Law, and Social Science), placed amongst the world’s top-5 “policy-maker think-tank” according to the US magazine Foreign Policy has launched three new books (in Brazilian Portuguese) on intellectual property -related fields.

1. Direitos Autorais deals with the basics of copyright through an accessible language. It deals with recent developments in the field, such as the public domain, the social function doctrine of copyrights, exceptions and limitations to copyrights, copyrights in the digital age, including digital rights managements (DRMs) and technological protection measures (TPMs), Creative Commons licenses, and so on. The book, by Sérgio Branco and myself, can be bought at FGV Publishing and it can be entirely and legally downloaded from Google Books, through a Creative Commons license.

2. Patentes e Criações Industriais discusses the basis for the patent system in Brazil, including the foundations of the international patent regime, and the Constitutional rights. Moreover, it also discusses how some WTO TRIPs flexibilities were introduced in Brazilian law, and it gives special attention to the access to medicines case in Brazil, including the recent compulsory license for the Efavirenz drug, the proceedings before ANVISA (the Brazilian Sanitary Agency), amongst other issues. The latter book, by Renata Reis and myself can be bought from FGV Publishing and it can also be legally downloaded from Google Books, through a Creative Commons license.

3. Propriedade Intelectual, Antitruste e Desenvolvimento (org. Luciano Benetti Timm and Pedro Paranaguá) brings a chapter by Prof. Robert Cooter, from the University of California at Berkeley, on innovation, law and development. Another chapter is by Prof. Luis Fernando Schuartz, from FGV School of Law in Rio, who writes on innovation and competition law. The remaining two chapters are by Prof. Luciano Timm, on technology transfer and competition law, and by Bekhzod A. Abdurazzakov, on software licensing and competition law.