EU Online Copyright Bill Coming; Publishers Debate DRMs 09/12/2007 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment By William New BRUSSELS – European publishers and copyright holders have a friend in European Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding, which she reinforced last week in describing efforts to push through a new bill on digital publishing copyrights. At the same event, publishers and cutting-edge US technology company SecondLife debated IP issues such as the […]
Film Industry Touts ISP Partners In Filtering Online Content 05/12/2007 by Liza Porteus Viana, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch NEW YORK – Internet service providers are going to lead the monitoring of networks to ensure they are not being used for infringing purposes in the entertainment industry’s seemingly endless battle to maintain control over where their content is distributed, and to whom, Motion Picture Association of America Chairman Dan Glickman said Tuesday. Glickman, speaking at the 35th Annual UBS Global Media & Communications Conference on 5 December, said his organisation – which represents the motion picture, home video and television industries – is working with telephone, cable and Internet companies, most notably AT&T, to ensure their networks are not being used to illegally share or download content. The relationship is somewhat ironic given the entertainment industry’s rocky history with the ISP community and its previous efforts to force telecommunications companies like Verizon to reveal the identities of customers who infringe copyrights on peer-to-peer filing systems.
WTO Panel On Chinese Content Distribution Delayed 24/11/2007 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment By William New The formation of a World Trade Organization panel requested by the United States on China’s distribution of American copyrighted material was delayed this week after a procedural move on an unrelated matter. The US panel request was to be considered by the WTO Dispute Settlement Body on 19 November, but the agenda […]
Standards ouverts et accès à la connaissance au menu des discussions du Forum sur la gouvernance de l’Internet 22/11/2007 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Par Monika Ermert pour Intellectual Property Watch RIO DE JANEIRO – Les questions liées à la propriété intellectuelle ont été parmi les sujets que les gouvernements avaient évité d’aborder pendant le sommet sur la société de l’information en 2003-2005, qui a débouché sur la création du Forum sur la gouvernance de l’Internet (FGI). Elles n’en […]
Normas abiertas y acceso al conocimiento, temas abordados en el FGI 22/11/2007 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Por Monika Ermert para Intellectual Property Watch RÍO DE JANEIRO- El de las cuestiones relacionadas con la propiedad intelectual fue un tema que los gobiernos evitaron tocar durante la Cumbre Mundial sobre la Sociedad de la Información en 2003 y 2005, en la que se decidió establecer el Foro de Gobernanza de Internet (FGI). Sin […]
Open Standards, Access To Knowledge Discussed At IGF 19/11/2007 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch RIO DE JANEIRO – Intellectual property-related issues were a topic avoided by governments during the 2003-2005 World Summit on the Information Society, which gave way to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). But at the second IGF in Rio de Janeiro last week there were several IP-related workshops. Organisers […]
French Industry Attacks Private Copy Fees As Levy Debate Grows 16/11/2007 by Dugie Standeford for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment By Dugie Standeford for Intellectual Property Watch Makers and distributors of digital storage products and audiovisual media last week urged France’s highest administrative court to kill private copy levies on technologies for transferring data such as USB keys, external hard disks and memory cards. The challenges, filed 9 November in the Conseil d’Etat by e-merchant Rue du Commerce and the Syndicat des Industries de Mat�riels Audiovisuels Electroniques (SIMAVELEC), contend that the lack of harmonised levies among European Union countries violates EU law and hurts online sellers. The legal action came one day after the European Grouping of Societies of Authors and Composers (GESAC) argued that non-payment of levies should be made a criminal offence.
Internet Governance Forum: Test Of A New Global Governance Model 14/11/2007 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch 2 Comments By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch RIO DE JANEIRO – The debate over whether the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) should grow beyond its no-decisions, dialogue-only capacity was under consideration from the opening of the meeting here Monday. While a majority of participants from the various stakeholder groups at the meeting agree with the mandate, […]
Aid Package For Theseus Web 3.0 Project May Need Boost 22/10/2007 by Bruce Gain for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment By Bruce Gain for Intellectual Property Watch The European Commission’s recent approval of a €120-million state aid package granted to a German research project called Theseus for the development of “Web 3.0” drew a lot of media attention. However, the grant’s sum is but a fraction of the R&D budgets of the world’s leading consumer Internet technology firms. According to the project’s spokesman, Thomas Huber, the project’s aim is nothing less than “fundamentally transforming the existing Internet.” A reinvention of the Internet and the intellectual property rights associated with such a feat would require billion-dollar annual research and development budgets, according to Rob Enderle, president and founder of the California-based Enderle Group analyst firm.
Le Protocole de Londres semble faciliter le dépôt de brevets dans l’Union européenne 19/10/2007 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment David Cronin pour Intellectual Property Watch L’année prochaine, l’entrée en vigueur d’un accord réduisant les exigences relatives à la traduction en matière de protection des innovations devrait faciliter l’obtention de brevets applicables dans l’ensemble de l’Union européenne. En vertu du Protocole de Londres, les pays qui reconnaissent l’allemand, l’anglais ou le français comme l’une de […]