March 15, 2006
I'm not the only one who had a problem with the "parasitic technology" paper
It's good to see that some folks at PFF
also had a problem with the
paper they published by Stan Leibowitz on "parasitic technologies,"
although
the internal criticism and discussion that is going ...
March 13, 2006
Astounding new piece from PFF
Our friends at the Progress
and Freedom Foundation (PFF),
with whom we frequently agree, have just put out an astounding piece called
"Parasitic Technologies and Noncreative Destruction."
Here ...
February 23, 2006
Argentina is really concerned about important issues
Argentina is now complaining that the proposals
should have been presented in a horizontal table rather than in a vertical
list. Jeez . . .
You think YOU wasted your day today
. . . ...
February 23, 2006
Shutting down anti-IP speechifying
Well, we've just had some more fun.
The radical, left-wing, anti-IP groups here use WIPO as a platform to rant
against IP and related issues. They use their opportunities to speak as
a chance t ...
February 23, 2006
U.S. puts their finger on the issue during their intervention
When the U.S. had its chance to respond
to criticisms to its proposal, they said something very important. The
U.S. said that the the proposal from the Friends of Development is not
THE Development ...
February 23, 2006
Diplomatic sparks fly on Thursday morning at WIPO
Had I done the sensible thing this morning
and spent a recreational day in the Swiss Alps at Chamonix, I would have
missed the biggest spat of the event (so far, at least).
Brazil spent considera ...
February 22, 2006
My neighbor at WIPO
You can just imagine some of the fun conversations we've had the last three
days.
Actually, the discourse
has been very civil. Most of the NGOs are actually very civil to each other,
at le ...
February 22, 2006
IPI's "2nd" intervention at WIPO on public domain and "brain drain"
The following is the text of IPI's "2nd"
intervention before the WIPO PCDA. It is in response to a proposal from
the African Group.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for this opportunity to speak
on beh ...
February 22, 2006
Google found to infringe copyright by creating thumbnails
This is very interesting. U.S.
District Judge Howard Matz has ruled that Google infringed copyright by
posting thumbnail images of photos from other websites through it's image
search function.
...
February 21, 2006
Observations after 2 days of WIPO PCDA meetings
A few quick observations after two days.
Rhetoric less inflammatory
First, the rhetoric from country delegations seems much less strident and
revolutionary than it did last year during the Develo ...
February 21, 2006
Almost an intervention at WIPO PCDA
Well, let's see: You fly all the way from
Texas to Geneva in order to defend the idea of intellectual property, and
thus to indirectly defend WIPO from its critics, and then the Chairman
of the mee ...
February 20, 2006
Chile, TPMs, and encryption
Right now, the delegation of Chile is describing
their proposal for a development agenda for WIPO.
Chile's proposal is of the nature of charging WIPO with studying and promoting
things OTHER THA ...
February 20, 2006
Diplomacy is about NOT getting things done . . .
So, here's how things got started.
At 9 am, nothing had started.
At 10 am, nothing had yet started.
At 11 am, still nothing.
At 12 pm, still nothing.
By my watch, the proceedings got st ...
February 20, 2006
First fun fact from WIPO's PCDA meeting
Here's your first fun fact of the morning
from WIPO's Provisional Committee on Proposals Related to a WIPO Development
Agenda (PCDA): The group sitting directly to my left is called IPLeft.
Thi ...
February 19, 2006
At Least China Is Upfront About It
An
article in the FT on China's new online Internet censor characters.
Chilling, and registration is required.
Consider this quotation from the director of the program:
“He is just l ...
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