June 29, 2006
Stalemate
We've just had a round of interventions
in answer to the Chairman's question of whether there is any point in continuing,
and if so, how?
The Chairman pointed out that if on
Thursday afternoon w ...
June 29, 2006
Friends of Development: Our Way or No Way
[The purpose of this blog entry is to catch
up and explain the latest developments at the WIPO Development Agenda meeting
in Geneva. Subsequently I will provide background and other information. ...
June 29, 2006
Streaming video: The New anti-IP Bolsheviks
Back in February I have a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on intellectual property. It's a pretty provocative speech with a pretty provocative title, "Th ...
June 28, 2006
So what's going on in Geneva?
For those who have been expecting vigorous,
aggressive and controversial blogging from the WIPO Development Agenda
meetings, I must apologize. I've actually been ill since I arrived in Geneva,
and ...
June 23, 2006
U.S. Attorney General on IP Theft
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
writes in an op/ed
in InformationWeek that the administration
has implemented all 31 recommendations of the Justice Department's 2001
Task Force on Intellect ...
June 14, 2006
Piracy hurts creators in developing countries II
Here's
an article from allAfrica.com about how native African artists are being
harmed by piracy and lack of IP protection and enforcement.
Tiro Baikananyi, Phikwe
based Pantsula artist who goes ...
June 10, 2006
Good news! There's still IP protection in the future
Came across this little gem the other night
flipping channels. I encountered a familiar old episode of the original
Star Trek series called "I, Mudd." This episode featured the
character Harvey Fen ...
June 3, 2006
How activists succeed
You gotta love these activists. They sure
are, well, active.
From conference to conference they go,
talking to themselves and reassuring each other of the moral superiority
of their anti-capital ...
May 31, 2006
Sweden shuts down The Pirate Bay
Policy
in Sweden have shut down The Pirate Bay, one of the largest file-sharing
sites in the world.
Henrik Pontén, lawyer at Antipiratbyrån (The Anti-Pirate
Bureau) in Stockholm, w ...
May 31, 2006
Piracy hurts creators in developing countries
For those who think that piracy and counterfeiting
are wonderful tools for economic development, here's
a great story. Apparently artists and creators in Swaziland disagree with
you.
The story i ...
May 30, 2006
Audacious pirates completely assume a brand
Here's
a story on how a sophisticated ring of counterfeiters has "set up
what amounted to a parallel NEC brand."
Evidence seized in
raids on 18 factories and warehouses in China and Taiwan over ...
May 26, 2006
Just one more example of how IP is critical to innovation
Interesting
story in the New Zealand news about the importance of IP protection to
the development of a promising new drug for Parkinson's Disease.
According to the researchers:
Worldwide ...
May 22, 2006
The A2K activists are at it again
Another
IP skeptic lovefest is coming.
And again, their big concern seems to be slogans
and tee shirts.
For my much-blogged commentary on the
last big IP skeptic lovefest, click
here. ...
May 8, 2006
Apple Computer wins copyright dispute with (Beatles') Apple Corp.
Apple
Computer has won it's dispute with Apple Corp. over the use of the Apple
symbol for music related activities.
By
Adam Pasick
LONDON (Reuters) - Apple Computer won its
courtroom battle a ...
May 1, 2006
WIPO debates Broadcast Treaty
They've just wrapped up the first day of
discussions at WIPO about the proposed treaty for the protection of broadcasters'
rights.
Here
is a link to the related documents on WIPO's website.
T ...
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