Global Copyright Licensing Doubts And What To Do About Them 22/11/2010 by Kaitlin Mara for Intellectual Property Watch and William New Leave a Comment What do the fearsome leader of France’s three-strikes agency, a top Microsoft counsel, Google’s copyright counsel, a free software activist, Egyptian and British librarians, a South American development-oriented academic, and a European music authors’ representative have in common? While one might be tempted to say, ‘very little’, a recent gathering showed one thing – they represent the very wide range of current views on the future of copyright licensing.
Final ACTA Text Released 16/11/2010 by Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment The United States Trade Representative has released the final text of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement [pdf], though it is still “subject to legal review.” This text, dated 15 November, is the agreed finalised version, according to a USTR press release.
WIPO Copyright Committee Agrees To Extra Time On Visually Impaired Access 15/11/2010 by Kaitlin Mara for Intellectual Property Watch 4 Comments The World Intellectual Property Organization copyright committee has reached an eleventh-hour agreement on a work programme that could help ease access to reading materials for the visually impaired.
WIPO Copyright Committee In Fight To Overcome Differences On Exceptions, Limitations 12/11/2010 by Kaitlin Mara for Intellectual Property Watch 3 Comments On the World Intellectual Property Organization committee on copyright’s final day of weeklong negotiations, the hopes of visually impaired readers and others – librarians, schools – looking for an agreement on copyright exceptions and limitations hang on whether delegates can resolve differences and create a plan for future work.
IFPMA Names President, New Members, R&D Commitments 10/11/2010 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) today announced that David Brennan of AstraZeneca will be its new president, replacing Haruo Naito of pharmaceutical companiy Eisai. They also announced that California-based biotechnology company Amgen has become a member.
Journalism Professor To Lead UK Review Of IP & Growth 10/11/2010 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Professor Ian Hargreaves of Cardiff University in Wales will lead an independent review of the intellectual property system’s promotion of growth and innovation launched by the United Kingdom’s Intellectual Property Office on 4 November.
EU Leak On ACTA Shows Path To Completion 09/11/2010 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Negotiators of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement will meet again after all to “finalise the legal scrub of the ACTA text” and to solve issues “of a technical nature,” according to recently leaked documents from the European Commission. They also show a document agreed by the US and the EU “for a package solution to the […]
Panellists: Copyright Law’s ‘Byzantine Maze’ Stalling New Business Models 09/11/2010 by Kaitlin Mara for Intellectual Property Watch 2 Comments While piracy remains an oft-cited problem for the creative content industry, it is the ‘Byzantine maze’ of copyright law that is stalling monetisation of new business models better designed to deliver content in the digital age, panellists at the World Intellectual Property Organization said last week.
Lessig Calls For WIPO To Lead Overhaul Of Copyright System 05/11/2010 by Kaitlin Mara for Intellectual Property Watch 13 Comments Influential copyright scholar Larry Lessig yesterday issued a call for the World Intellectual Property Organization to lead an overhaul of the copyright system which he says does not and never will make sense in the digital environment.
US Election Brings IP Uncertainty 03/11/2010 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment With the Republican Party taking control of the United States House of Representatives in yesterday’s election, some changes are expected in intellectual property policymaking, according to observers.