October 3, 2005
Development Agenda has been decided (for 2005)
My understanding is that a compromise has
been agreed to on the development agenda.
The issue was between those who wanted the "IIM process" to continue,
and between those who wanted the discuss ...
September 30, 2005
More on why we don't want the UN running the Internet
For over a year, the important work of
the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has been held hostage
by a group of countries who are using this tactic simply to gain leverage
on other m ...
September 30, 2005
Meanwhile, across the street at WSIS . . .
While I'm mostly following what's going
on at the WIPO General Assemblies, across the street at the ITU (International
Telecommunications Union), PrepCom-3 of the World Summit on the Information
So ...
September 30, 2005
Understanding "informal consultations"
Here's how things go at a consensus-driven
organization like WIPO.
Since nothing can be decided unless
there is "consensus," in a body composed of so many different
and disparate nations, almost ...
September 28, 2005
Grokster-related changes in the P2P world
Isn't it interesting how P2P companies
are changing their technology post-Grokster?
eDonkey, for example, is
moving to comply with intellectual property protection, and is "throwing
in the towel ...
September 28, 2005
Article on IP protection on TechNewsWorld
In an example of fortuitous timing, giving
the debate this afternoon and tomorrow morning at WIPO on the "development
agenda," I've just had an op/ed published on TechNewsWorld
on this very topic.
...
September 28, 2005
Broadcast Treaty debate going on this morning at WIPO
This morning, the agenda item at the WIPO
General Assembly meeting is the Broadcast Treaty.
I've
blogged a little bit on the Treaty before,
but not much. The IP skeptic activists HATE the Broadc ...
September 27, 2005
Intercontinental Hotel Geneva doesn't respect reservations
I'm in Geneva for the General Assembly
of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Because I know this blog is read by many who travel to Geneva for WIPO
matters, I've had an experi ...
September 21, 2005
Things heating up in preparation for WIPO General Assembly
WIPO's biennial General
Assembly meeting starts next week
in Geneva, and things are starting to heat up in advance of the meeting.
We'll be there, in case you were wondering,
to participate as a ...
September 21, 2005
Comments policy
Apparently it's time to restate the comments
policy.
We've been getting a lot of really inflammatory
comments lately with fake email addresses designed to get around this blog's
authentication s ...
September 19, 2005
India considering granting data exclusivity
In yet another encouraging sign that India
is moving in the right direction toward stronger intellectual property
protection, the government of India is mulling a "turnaround"
in its policy on data ...
September 19, 2005
Extensive article on IP challenges in China
Here's a good (but poorly-titled) article
on the IP situation in China called "The
copyright challenge in China",
even though it also deals extensively with patent issues as well.
Most notably:
...
September 18, 2005
Okay, so what happened at the WIPO NGO meeting?
I said I'd report from the WIPO interactive
meeting with NGOs, and this is it.
First of all, here's
a news story from the meeting that tells you everything you don't need
to know. It must have b ...
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