September 14, 2005
Back in Geneva for another WIPO Development Agenda meeting
There are three meetings in Geneva this
week regarding WIPO's proposed development agenda.
[Yes, you're right, we all thought the Development Agenda discussion had
concluded in July--at leas ...
September 12, 2005
Feelings are driving the Commonists
I found this interesting, and telling.
Kim Weatherall is an IP academic in Australia, and she's pretty prominent
down under in advocating the positions of the Free Culture Commonists.
She has a ...
September 12, 2005
"Why do we extra smart and extra virtuous Free Culture folks keep losing in the courts?"
There's a pattern emerging:
1. A
particular legal case involving intellectual property is hailed by the
Free Culture Commonists as crucial to "preserving freedom" or
"protecting innovat ...
September 12, 2005
IPI's submission on Mass. OpenFormats policy
As
I've already blogged, the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts is promoting a new IT policy that seems intended
to exclude proprietary software products from state use.
As I've examined the policy ...
September 8, 2005
Chinese piracy ring cracked just in advance of Chinese President's visit to the U.S.
Chinese police Thursday hailed the bust
of a Sino-U.S. piracy ring making fake Viagra, according
to this Reuters story.
Of course, the
Chinese president will be in the U.S. for a visit very shor ...
September 7, 2005
Why the need for a WIPO broadcast treaty?
One of the items on the agenda for the
upcoming WIPO General Assembly meeting is the Broadcast Treaty, something
that WIPO has been working on for 10 years, and something that WIPO seems
eager to m ...
September 6, 2005
Whiny Larry Lessig in Wired
Larry
Lessig throws a temper tantrum on the Grokster decision in
the latest issue of Wired.
Here's my favorite quote:
Innovation
will continue to suffer unless someone on the Court finds a way ...
September 6, 2005
Enjoyable summary of the KaZaa verdict
Here's
a link to a great summary of the KaZaa verdict in Australia,
link suggested by our friend (and occasionally IPI author) Tony Healy down
under.
The author is a bit hard on the music indus ...
September 5, 2005
KaZaa has lost in Australia
KaZaa
has lost in Australia.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!
(sorry, I lost control there for a minute. I've composed myself now.)
My friend and sometime IPI author Tony Healy in Austra ...
September 5, 2005
Wonder what China's president will say at dinner at Bill Gates' house?
The President of China is visiting the
United States in a few days; specifically, Seattle. And
he's having dinner at Bill Gates house.
He's planning to give an address in
intellectual property, ...
September 4, 2005
Mass. on a philosophical crusade against proprietary software
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is apparently
on a philosophical crusade mandating open source for state government use.
Here's
an article on the situation.
Update: The Financial Times has a ...
August 29, 2005
Sun's Schwartz responds to questions about DReaM
I noted last week that Jonathan Schwartz
of Sun gave an interesting, confusing and troubling (to me) presentation
at the Aspen Summit on Sun's new open source DRM solution, called DReaM.
Schwar ...
August 22, 2005
Terrific op/ed by Epstein on the Texas Vioxx case
There
is a terrific op/ed this morning in the Wall Street Journal on the Texas
Vioxx verdict by my friend Dr. Richard Epstein.
The piece is typically Epstein-great, containing as it does not only c ...
August 22, 2005
Sun's new open source DRM solution
I'm at the Progress
and Freedom Foundation's annual Aspen Summit.
This year much of the emphasis is on content, so my level of interest is
even more intense than usual.
At the opening reception ...
August 15, 2005
Situation seems to be deteriorating in Brazil regarding compulsory licensing of AIDS retrovirals
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