October 25, 2006
News: The Future of IPBlog
For those of you who ravenously devour the postings at IP Blog, and for those of you who only occasionally browse them, here is an important piece of news: IP Blog is being folded into the Institute ...
October 12, 2006
So much for IBM's commitment to open source
This blog is built on a design by a great
guy in the UK, Steve
Castledine. Steve created this
design to fill the need that users of Lotus Notes/Domino (such as IPI)
had for a blogging system. Ther ...
October 1, 2006
News summary from IPI's study on movie piracy
Washington
Post
Broadcasting
& Cable
New
York Times
Hollywood
Reporter
Washington
Times
Arizona
Republic
Business
of Cinema (India)
BBC
News
Gulf
News (Dubai)
CBC
News ...
October 1, 2006
Response to EFF on IPI's movie piracy study
IPI has gotten a lot of media coverage
on our new econometric study estimating the economic impact of movie piracy,
including a
pretty good story in the Washington Post by Frank Ahrens.
One thin ...
September 29, 2006
Bush administration releases IP enforcement report
It's a big day for piracy talk.
In addition to the U.S.
Chamber's event on piracy and counterfeiting,
today the Bush administration has released
the
"2006
Report to the President and Congress ...
September 28, 2006
Piracy is killing creators in the developing world: Uganda
And here's a story from Uganda,
where musicians are desperately trying to organize themselves so that they
can take action to fight piracy and obtain and enforce IP rights so that
they can actually ...
September 28, 2006
Piracy is killing creators in the developing world: Burma
It's true that piracy has a major harmful
impact on the creative industries in the United States and Europe, but
it's helpful to be reminded that piracy has perhaps an even more harmful
impact in d ...
September 27, 2006
Current state of play on the proposed Broadcast Treaty
We have commented in an
earlier blog entry on the status
of the Broadcast Treaty, and on the fact that the Treaty's language not
only doesn't seem ready for prime time, but that it also contains so ...
September 26, 2006
IPI releases paper on the economic impact of motion picture piracy
This Friday, September 29th, IPI will be
releasing a new paper on the impact of global motion picture piracy on
the U.S. economy.
This paper is truly unique, in that
it goes beyond the losses du ...
September 26, 2006
Introducing "Overdose," a new IPI book by Richard Epstein
I'm proud to announce the release of a
new book by IPI, entitled Overdose:
How Excessive Government Regulation Stifles Pharmaceutical Innovation.
The author is our good friend and legal genius ...
September 26, 2006
IPI's intervention at the 2006 WIPO General Assembly
This is the intervention delivered by IPI
at the World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) 2006 General Assembly:
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
The Institute for Policy Innovation is a 19 y ...
September 26, 2006
The Broadcast Treaty's poison pill language, and what to do about it
There are a number of objections to the
proposed Broadcast Treaty at WIPO.
The first group of objections comes from a group of radical activists who
either don't believe in property rights at al ...
September 26, 2006
Open source pragmatists and ideologues are splitting over GPLv3
It's always been the case that the main
driver behind the free and open source software movement was animosity
against ownership, control, and profit. That's why Richard Stallman came
up with the i ...
September 25, 2006
Breaking News: Brazil's Minister of Culture isn't big on IP
Right now we're being lectured by Gilberto
Gil, Brazil's Minister of Culture, popular musician, and commons radical.
Here
is a little background on Mr. Gil.
Here's
some more. And
here's a bit m ...
September 25, 2006
Activist irony on the Broadcast Treaty
One interesting note: the anti-IP chavistas
here at WIPO are gleeful at the prospects of the U.S. killing the Broadcast
Treaty.
This is because they don't believe in property or property
rights ...
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