A Week Into WCIT, Few Compromises In Fragile Discussions 09/12/2012 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment More broadband rollout and better access to networks everywhere – that’s a position shared by participants at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), which started last week in Dubai. And this is where the consensus ends, according to a more sceptical reading on progress made in negotiations to review the future International Telecommunication Regulations (ITR).
World Conference On International Telecom Kicks Off In Political Style 04/12/2012 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment The World Conference on International Telecommunication (WCIT) has affirmed the right to freedom of information online, the secretariat of the UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU) said in a press release on day two in Dubai, Qatar, where over 160 country delegations since yesterday are talking about the future global telecommunications rules.
ITU’s Touré Urges Syria To Restore Internet Access 30/11/2012 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment UN International Telecommunication Union Secretary General Hamadoun Touré used a press conference on the eve of the much-anticipated World Conference on International Telecommunication (WCIT) which starts in Dubai next week to call on the Syrian government to investigate problems of access to the mobile network and internet in Syria and do “anything necessary to restore the access.”
WIPO, EPO Leaders At OECD: Adjust The Patent System For The Globalised, Knowledge-Based Society 30/11/2012 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment The international intellectual property rights system must urgently make headway toward an easier-to-use, globally agreed upon, inclusive and effective architecture, a high-level panel of IP policy leaders said on 29 November.
US Ambassador On WCIT: “ITU Is Not The Problem” 29/11/2012 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment United States Ambassador Terry Kramer, head of the US delegation to the upcoming UN-led World Conference on International Telecommunication (WCIT) in Dubai, in a press call today warned against proposals that would invite the UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to get into the business of internet governance, be it routing interventions, content control issues, or changes in accounting for internet traffic. Yet reacting to an earlier call by ex-White House official Andrew McLaughlin at a New America Foundation conference to “dismantle the ITU”, Kramer said: “I do not think the ITU is the problem.”
Criminal IP Sanctions To Be Dropped From Canada-EU FTA, Documents Show 28/11/2012 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Criminal sanctions for intellectual property rights infringement are to be dropped from the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), according to a set of documents leaked by Montreal daily La Presse.
WCIT Documents Published For First Time 24/11/2012 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment All substantive documents filed for the UN-led World Conference on International Telecommunication (WCIT) have been made public, many of them for the first time.
WCIT: Is It About The Internet Or Not? 22/11/2012 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment The debates are getting more heated with the December World Conference on International Telecommunication (WCIT) in Dubai coming closer. Google today (21 November) launched one of its big campaigns to rally support against what it says is an attempt by some countries to “further regulate the internet” and potentially limit free speech through censorship.
Governments’ Early Warning Notes Issued On New Internet Domains 21/11/2012 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment No exclusive “.baby” top-level domain (TLD) for Johnson and Johnson, no exclusive “.blog” for Google, nor “.antivir” for Symantec or “.epost” for the German Postal Service. Of 242 government early warning notices to applicants for new generic top-level domains posted last night by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the majority target “quasi-monopolies” over generic names or lack of protective measures with regard to defensive registrations.
Post-Baku, Pre-WCIT Special Report: Internet Governance On A Shoestring 19/11/2012 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment The recent Internet Governance Forum in Baku, Azerbaijan was used as a stage for some very targeted messages on the upcoming World Conference on International Telecommunication, it saw yet another round of exchanges on some of the tough questions of digital society from privacy and security to future copyright, and had the most intensive discussions on human rights in cyberspace so far.