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DROIT DE SUITE
BY ALAN OSBORN AND KEITH NUTHALL
HOW will Britain’s museums be affected now that the UK is about to fall into line with other European countries and introduce a so-called droit de suite (NOTE: in italics), giving artists the right to a percentage of the price when their works are re-sold?…
LEADER PLUS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
*Final approval has been given for a the spending by the European Commission until 2006 of Euro 15.4 million on rural development projects in Northern Ireland under the EU LEADER plus initiative. The scheme covers all province rural areas and will especially focus on farm families, women, young people and the long-term unemployed, funding training programmes, advice and assistance for rural enterprises, processing of local products and e-commerce initiatives.…
TRIPS LATEST
BY KEITH NUTHALL
DEVELOPING countries have banded together at the World Trade Organisation to call for its Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (TRIPs) to be interpreted as allowing their governments to take any steps “to protect public health,” including the authorisation of generic production of medicines under patent.…
VIAGRA/BAYCOL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEP’s have called on the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products (EMEA) to tighten its rules regarding the authorisation of drugs, because of concerns aired to the European Parliament’s environment committee about the deaths of patients taking Viagra and Baycol/Lipobay.…
YELLOW FEVER
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has launched an urgent appeal for US$2.9 million, to fund a mass immunisation campaign fighting a potentially disastrous yellow fever outbreak in Abidjan, the Ivory Coast. The WHO is preparing to deliver vaccine from an international stockpile as soon as possible, but will need to secure more medicines.…
WIPO NAMES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Intellectual Property Organisation, (WIPO), has released a plan for the fighting of abusive registration of Internet sites involving International Non-proprietary Names, (INN’s), the generic, unique and distinctive names of pharmaceutical substances, selected by the World Health Organisation, (WHO).…
LA XXX
BY KATE REW
MALE nude figures have been sandblasted into the floor of the American Airlines terminal at Los Angeles International Airport in a controversial piece entitled, “The Wonders of the Heavens and Flying” by Susan Narduli. Some travellers strongly objected when it was first unveiled, but the city’s Cultural Affairs Commission had approved the display, airport spokesman, Tom Winfrey said.…
SOUTH AFRICA
BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
THE AIRPORTS Company of South Africa has warned that its profitability could be threatened by a slump in the number of international airlines flying into the country, as the boom in travel that greeted the onset of majority rule wears off.…
COLUMBO AIRPORT
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE, in Columbo, Sri Lanka, and KEITH NUTHALL
ELECTRONIC devices and double fencing with increased strong points are to be installed at Sri Lanka’s Bandaranaike International Airport to strengthen perimeter security, following the devastating recent attack by Tamil Tiger guerrillas.…
LOGO DISPUTE
Keith Nuthall
SAN Francisco International Airport (SFO) has dropped plans to take legal action against a design company for creating a logo for Dallas-Fort Worth Airport (D/FW) which was similar to the symbol it designed for the SFO, said airport spokesmen Ron Wilson.…