WIPO Promotes Discussion On Indian Film Industry’s Benefit From IPR 12/12/2012 by Tiphaine Nunzia Caulier for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment The launch of the weeklong Indian film festival at the World Intellectual Property Organization last week brought together different speakers who stressed the importance of copyright protection for the safeguarding and development of the Indian film industry and who characterised unauthorised downloading as a danger for the industry.
WCIT: Internet Issues Still In Draft New Telecom Rules 12/12/2012 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Dubai, UAE – The internet is not completely out of the first consolidated draft proposal for the future International Telecommunication Regulations (ITR) that was introduced late on 11 December at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai.
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).
European Commission Embarks On Process To ‘Modernise’ Copyright 06/12/2012 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch 2 Comments The European Commission today (5 December) agreed on a process to ensure copyright is best suited for the digital age with the aim of possible legislative reform in 2014. Commissioners in a meeting decided to launch a stakeholder dialogue immediately, and to complete market studies, impact assessment and legal drafting work.
Libraries, NGOs Warn EU Commissioners Against Restrictive Copyright Licensing 05/12/2012 by Intellectual Property Watch 2 Comments A diverse group of more than two dozen groups representing libraries, digital civil liberties, free software and an open, user-friendly internet has called on European commissioners to refrain from overly restrictive copyright licensing policies and to consider flexibilities to copyright to encourage knowledge access. The commissioners were expected to meet today to discuss possible changes to EU copyright law.
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.
US Isolated In Opposition To WIPO Treaty For The Blind, Group Says 03/12/2012 by Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment The United States now stands alone in its opposition to a World Intellectual Property Organization treaty on copyright exceptions for blind and and other print-disabled readers, the World Blind Union (WBU) said today.
Special Report Russia’s Enforcement Against Online Copyright Infringement 03/12/2012 by Daria Kim for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment During the joint news conference held in Paris on 27 November by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, Medvedev was asked a question of legislative scrutiny with regard to internet regulation in Russia. In his reply, the Russian prime minister admitted that the current legislation regulating the internet is “imperfect” and called upon the international community to “consider parameters to regulate the operation of the internet on the national or international level.”
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.”
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.”