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Brazil, the Amazonia, Football and the Market
Bankruptcy Moratorium, a Flight Forward
Portuguese Golden Visa
The Value of Uniqueness: Non-Fungible Tokens in the Age of Name, Image and Likeness
A vintage baseball card of Hall-of-Fame shortstop Honus Wagner reportedly sold for a record $3.25 million last October in the midst of a pandemic-fueled surge in collectibles and memorabilia sales. Produced by American Tobacco Company between 1909 and 1911 as a cigarette box insert, only around 50 copies of the card still exist in the world today as Wagner cut the production of his card short.
Covid-19: a Shared Dilemma
On April 26, in the framework of the celebration of the international industrial property day, in a panel organized by PRAGMA, we discussed the possibility of temporarily suspending or releasing patents related to COVID-19 vaccines.
Two weeks later, US President Joe Biden proposed the suspension of patents relating to Covid-19. His trade advisor Katherine Tai said:
"This is a global health crisis and the extraordinary circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures to be taken."