Marcelo Thompson

The Intellectual Property Watch reports that the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cutural Rights has approved some concluding observations on reports submitted by Costa Rica with regard to its implementation of articles 16 and 17 of the ICESCR. At stake was the Central American-Dominican Republic-United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR), recently signed by Costa [...]

I cannot think but that it is hoax. If much, I hope we can focus on it only as an academic exercise. An e-mail with a troubling attachment reached my inbox some days ago. The file, with the Venezuelan coat of arms (which looks exactly like its Wikipedian version, though), contains some items of what [...]

Last Monday I arrived from the Internet Governance Forum, in Rio de Janeiro, where I was taking part in some panels (more soon). When reaching the immigration officer at Heathrow, I almost needed to provide him with my CV before getting clearance. I really don’t know whether this was really necessary, since all the requested [...]