February 19, 2006
WIPO's new development agenda discussions begin Monday
WIPO's new development agenda discussions begin
Monday (Feb. 20), and will run through
Friday (Feb. 24). And IPI will be there as an accredited observer organization,
and I'll be blogging live when ...
January 30, 2006
Copyright is a "progenitor of development"
A week or so ago this
article appeared in the Vanguard, a paper in Nigeria.
At places the English is a little stilted, but the message comes through
that at least some people in Nigeria understand ...
January 13, 2006
IPI event on traditional knowledge
IPI is hosting an event in DC on Wednesday
on traditional knowledge protection, databases, etc.
Here
is a link to the invitation. ...
January 5, 2006
New Release from IPI: Will Congress Circumvent Copyright Protection?
Today, the Institute for Policy Innovation
(IPI) has released a new IPI Ideas publication by Dr. Richard Epstein entitled
"Will Congress Circumvent the DMCA?"
It is a critical evaluation of H.R.
...
January 3, 2006
WIPO PCDA committee to meet in February
The
new WIPO committee formed to deal with the issue of a proposed development
agenda will have its first meeting
in Geneva on February 20-24, 2006.
The invitation refers to the committee
as th ...
January 3, 2006
India implements a traditional knowledge database
According
to this AP story, India is implementing a database of traditional knowledge.
This is actually extremely important,
despite the fact that it will be glossed over by many who pay attentio ...
December 14, 2005
WIPO claims exoneration of claims of corruption
Here's some breaking WIPO news: After months
of whispers about financial scandal at WIPO, a
press release from WIPO claims that the E&Y audit has not found any
wrongdoing.
Of course, this W ...
November 29, 2005
WTO extends deadline for poor countries to implement TRIPS by seven years
In advance of December's much-anticipated
WTO ministerial meeting in Hong Kong, the
WTO has given least developed countries (LDCs) an additional seven years
to bring their national IP laws into com ...
November 15, 2005
WSIS-related links over at GioBlog
Since it isn't really an IP issue, I'm
not posting here on Internet governance and WSIS issues. But since I've
been somewhat involved in the process, and have thus been writing and doing
interviews ...
November 14, 2005
Kieren McCarthy is blogging from WSIS
Here's an additional resource on what is
going on in Tunis. Reporter
Kieren McCarthy is blogging from there, and he's an interesting writer. ...
November 10, 2005
E&Y find that pharmaceutical companies are cautious about investing in China and India
We're all aware of the incredible competition
to the U.S. economy posed by China and India. These countries benefit from
not only low labor costs but also boast an educated workforce, which is
a po ...
November 10, 2005
New "study" on the economic value of intellectual property
There's a new paper out from a group called
USA
for Innovation on the
economic value of intellectual property (PDF).
It's mostly a survey of other studies
on the subject, and so doesn't really ...
October 25, 2005
IPI op/ed in the Financial Times on IP and WTO debate
Today, IPI has an op/ed in the Financial
Times that addresses some of the issues we've been talking about in
this blog about the relationship between agriculture subsidies and IP-retribution.
It's ...
October 17, 2005
Clinching the relationship between trade and IP woes
I have argued in several different venues
lately that much of the trouble we're having on international IP issues
is driven by resentment over U.S. and E.U. agriculture policy.
No, I'm not saying ...
October 5, 2005
New IPI publication on IP and human rights
During the just-concluded WIPO General
Assemblies, the Institute for Policy Innovation (the sponsor of this blog)
released a new 2-page publication called Intellectual
Property Rights and Human Rig ...
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