September 25, 2006
I'd rather be in Texas . . .
. . . but I'm in Geneva, Switzerland for
the 42nd General Assemblies of the World Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO). This is the annual meeting where business is actually conducted
and deci ...
September 14, 2006
WIPO committee approves recommendation of the Broadcast Treaty to full WIPO assembly
On Wednesday in Geneva, WIPO's Standing
Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) approved a recommendation
that the proposed "Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations"
move ah ...
August 25, 2006
Australia insists on IP protection in its FTAs
Australia
is negotiating a FTA with the Asean countries, and Australia is insisting
that strong IP protections be included in that FTA. ...
August 25, 2006
India's adoption of IP is creating a culture of innovation
Here's a good article
on how India's adoption of strong IP protection is creating a culture of
innovation.
The Indian IP scenario
has undergone huge transformation over the last three decades. T ...
August 25, 2006
IPI's George Pieler on Microsoft's software principles and the EU
One of IPI's Senior Research Fellows, George
Pieler, has a great commentary on CNET News today entitled "New
Vistas for Microsoft, so why not Europe?"
George's point, that the EU's fines
and reg ...
August 24, 2006
Oh, those irascible young Eurosocialists at the Free Software Foundation Europe
A little while ago I came across a page
of portraits of Georg Greve, who runs the Free Software Foundation Europe,
and who is one of my earnest sparring partners on intellectual property
matters at ...
August 10, 2006
Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz Gets It
Here's
an article from Malaysia where
the Minister of International Trade and Industry, Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz,
understands that adequate IP protection is the key to foreign investment.
"If we ...
July 19, 2006
Who do you think is the most important person in this guy's life?
http://gnuhh.org/work/pictures/2005-09-10/
Georg runs the FSFE
(Free Software Foundation Europe),
and he's done his share of making fun of me on his
blog for my pro-IP activity
at WIPO, so I ...
July 19, 2006
India has nothing to fear from either patent protection or data exclusivity
Last year, when the Government of India
adopted its patent amendments as required by TRIPS, health activists carried
out concerted campaigns to try to avert what they characterized as a "public
hea ...
July 19, 2006
Malaysia gets it on piracy and counterfeiting
The
Malaysian Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister says that heavier
fines and faster court processing are needed to combat piracy and counterfeiting.
Mohd Shafie said raids
on six facto ...
July 19, 2006
Speaking on Intellectual Property Friday at ALEC
By the way, I'll be speaking this Friday
morning (July 21st) in San Francisco at the annual meeting of the American
Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). I'm on a panel discussing intellectual
prope ...
June 30, 2006
WIPO PCDA on the Development Agenda is over
It's 1:47 pm in Geneva, and the meeting
is over. The translators have been released, all recriminations have been
issued, the Chairman has been praised, and nothing has been accomplished.
A fac ...
June 30, 2006
French approve iTunes law
The
French National Assembly and Senate have both passed legislation designed
to outlaw proprietary music formats that are linked to proprietary devices. ...
June 30, 2006
Last minute drama
At the very last minute, I mean at the
very last minute, at 1:38 pm, as people were packing up their bags, the
Kyrgyz Republic introduced a new document which is essentially the Chairman's
document ...
June 30, 2006
Time for recriminations
More details later, but the WIPO Development
Agenda discussions are ending in collapse. Brazil and Argentina have been
unwilling to compromise, so it's over.
Right now various countries are givin ...
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