ISP Liability, Limitations And Exceptions Top Global Copyright Issues In 2009 09/02/2009 by Dugie Standeford for Intellectual Property Watch 2 Comments The Year Ahead: Copyright has taken centre stage again this year as the battle over internet service provider (ISP) responsibility for digital piracy intensifies and spreads around the world. 2009 will also feature growing global pressure for a more harmonised system of copyright limitations and exceptions, and continuing controversy over the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
Taubman Of WIPO Picked To Head WTO IP Division 04/02/2009 by Kaitlin Mara for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment By Kaitlin Mara and William New Antony Taubman, acting director and head of the Global Intellectual Property Issues Division at the World Intellectual Property Organization, has been named to the top IP position at the World Trade Organization, the WTO has confirmed.
Concern Erupts Over WTO System And Medicines Shipments; TRIPS Talks Rekindling 03/02/2009 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch 8 Comments By William New The ambassadors to the World Trade Organization from Brazil and India on Tuesday charged that other WTO members had no grounds to block legitimate shipping of generic medicines on the basis of potential intellectual property rights conflicts in the transit country and said recent cases of doing so in the Netherlands call […]
IP Owners Face Tough Legal Issues In United States In 2009 30/01/2009 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment By Steven Seidenberg for Intellectual Property Watch 2009 could be a bad year for IP owners in the United States. For patent owners, it may be particularly tough. The US courts are likely to continue their recent trend of cutting back on patent rights, according to many experts. The question is: what rights may be cut back and by how much? Copyright and trademark owners in the United States face a different set of troubles. They are struggling to protect their rights in the digital world, and it is far from certain how they will fare.
WIPO Ponders New Negotiating Style; DDG Positions Opening; Patent Filings Falter 29/01/2009 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment By William New The World Intellectual Property Organization saw record patent filings again in 2008, but the rate of growth is slowing, WIPO Director General Francis Gurry said Tuesday. Meanwhile, the WIPO secretariat is privately exploring with member governments ways to break through a longstanding deadlock in policy negotiations underway at the UN institution, and […]
The Last Defence Of The IP System: An Interview With Jamie Boyle 28/01/2009 by Intellectual Property Watch 7 Comments James Boyle is a leading thinker on copyright and knowledge access, and is author of a new book called The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (available at thepublicdomain.org or here as a PDF).
Licensing Remains Essential But Elusive For Digital Music Providers 28/01/2009 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch CANNES – Giving licences to digital music providers has been on top of the agenda of the world’s largest music fair, Midem, and its technology forum Midemnet for about a decade now. But simple solutions still are not on the horizon and more and more governments are considering […]
WHO Global Strategy On IP And Health Considered, Implementation Advances 28/01/2009 by Kaitlin Mara for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment By Kaitlin Mara Progress made on the World Health Organization strategy on public health and innovation was highlighted to WHO members on Saturday, including the production of a key budgeting document detailing timeframes and estimated costs of implementing the strategy. The Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property was discussed […]
Proposed EU Copyright Term Extension Faces Vocal Opposition In Parliament 27/01/2009 by David Cronin for Intellectual Property Watch 8 Comments By David Cronin for Intellectual Property Watch BRUSSELS – Strong opposition is being voiced by members of the European Parliament over plans to extend the copyright protection applying to sound recordings from 50 to 95 years. Both left and right-leaning Parliament members (MEPs) have signalled that they intend to vote against the proposed extension at […]
Hope For Consensus On WHO And Counterfeits Moves To May Assembly 27/01/2009 by Kaitlin Mara for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment By Kaitlin Mara A World Health Organization report and draft resolution on counterfeit medical products drew energetic debate last week, though no compromise has yet been found to bridge disagreements over the consultation process behind the counterfeit report and over the risk of confusing intellectual property violations with potentially dangerous misrepresentation of medicines. Members agreed […]