'Copyright' Category
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Protecting Traditional Knowledge from Corporate Piracy
January 26, 2005India struggles to document its biodiversity. by CHANDRIKA MAGO. The Times of India. THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 2005. In the United States, it is the entertainment industries (RIAA, MPAA, etc.) that have latched on to the term “piracy” for what they describe as “theft” of their “intellectual property.” But in third world countries, piracy is a [...]
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Florida government office may not copyright maps
December 8, 2004Official loses copyright case By MIKE HOYEM, The News-Press Bonita Springs Florida, December 8, 2004. A court has ruled Collier County Property Appraiser Abe Skinner cannot copyright maps created by his office and demand royalties from those who use them to make a profit. Wednesday’s decision by the 2nd District Court of Appeal in Lakeland [...]
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Update on WIPO
December 4, 2004EFF and IP Justice under attack at WIPO conference [Politech] “WIPO has been meeting for this week in Geneva, under discussion is a broadcast treaty that would cover webcasters and grant new rights to publishers a la the DMCA, prohibiting circumvention of technical measures, etc. etc. Typical evil stuff.”
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Public-inerest groups’ papers stolen at World Intellectual Property Organization Meeting
November 20, 2004Letter to WIPO on stolen EFF documents Cory Doctorow, Electronic Freedom Foundation, November 18, 2004. Cory is blogging the WIPO meetings in Geneva where negotiations over the Broadcasting Treaty, which has the power to lock up the public domain and break the web, are being held. Let me try to convey to you the depth [...]
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Fair use being attacked AGAIN!
November 17, 2004Wired News: Senate May Ram Copyright Bill This is one of those times when several threads in my brain coalesce. I got a chance to hear Pamela Samuelson, dean of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology speak at UCSD two days ago on the subject of P2P. Fascinating talk on an issue of great [...]
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digital rights groups weigh in vs INDUCE Act
October 13, 2004Letter from American Association of Law Libraries, American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge to The Senate Judiciary Committee regarding negotiations on S.2560. Public Knowledge is a new public-interest advocacy organization dedicated to fortifying and defending a vibrant information commons. This Washington, D.C. based [...]
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“Piracy Deterrence in Education” bill
October 11, 2004The Importance of… > Copyright Shenanigans Not Over in Congress – Piracy Education Act Dangerous” href=”http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/026477.php”>Copyright Shenanigans Not Over in Congress – Piracy Education Act Dangerous Ernest Miller, Corante, The Importance of… October 08, 2004. Miller Reports on a bill possibly worse than the INDUCE act. Among other things it wants to write into law [...]
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WIPO Announces Plans to Support Public Domain, Open Source
October 8, 2004WIPO Announces Plans to Support Public Domain, Open Source This is really big. This is the first time EVER that the World Intellectual Property Organization has recognized that the public domain has a place in intellectual property law. As a matter of fact, WIPO has spent a considerable amount of energy (and $$$) to make [...]
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Stand up for your rights
September 16, 2004Stand up for your rights by Danny O’Brien. New Scientist vol 183, issue 2463 – 04 September 2004, page 15. reprinted in Upd-discuss — Discussion list for Union for the Public Domain, “New Scientist: Copyright is hampering our basic freedoms” There is a potential time bomb ticking here. Part of the bargain with authors of [...]
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Lessig: copyrighting the president
August 22, 2004Copyrighting the President Wired 12(8), August, 2004. Laurence Lessig raises a very interesting point here. Basically, copyright can have a negative affect on political discourse, especially given our 21st century reality of media consolidation and concentration. Read on! The US president owns neither his words nor his image – at least not when he speaks [...]