Governments and Intellectual Property Community Fight For Open Whois Access 06/07/2006 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Should everybody who registers an Internet domain name be forced to publish his private address, email address and phone number on the Internet? A storm broke out over the question of the so-called Whois data at the meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) […]
WSIS Internet Governance Forum Begins To Take Shape 21/02/2006 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment The Internet governance forum established by the November World Summit on the Information Society began to take shape after a 16-17 February meeting at the United Nations. The first forum will be held in Athens, Greece, but the date and subject of the meeting remain unclear. The UN secretary-general’s office will decide on meeting details […]
Who Shall Own .China or .Arabia? Internet IP Questions On The Rise 11/01/2006 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch The cry for internationalized Internet domain names (IDNs) gets louder at every meeting related to Internet management, standardisation or politics. But questions of technology that once slowed the spread of Internet names into other languages have now been overtaken by policy questions, including those relating to intellectual property. […]
US Tech Industry Lobbyist Dodges “Wild West” Of WSIS 15/11/2005 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment To get a sense of how this week’s second UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunisia is different from the first WSIS held two years ago, one need only talk to a US technology industry lobbyist who this year decided to stay away. “People keep asking me what am I doing here,” […]
Stage Set For Global Face-Off On Internet Governance 14/07/2005 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Luxembourg City–A new report from a UN task force on governance of policy issues related to the Internet sets the stage for global negotiations over who has oversight of those issues. The report, the final outcome of a working group on Internet governance mandated at the 2003 UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), […]
ICANN Takes Credit, Criticism On New Internet Domains 13/07/2005 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Luxembourg City—The organisation responsible for the Internet name and address system this week hailed completion of a contract signed over the weekend with a new .mobi Internet domain, but heard criticism of its handling of the new .xxx domain for adult websites. The comments came in the first days of a weeklong meeting of the […]
Policy On Personal Data For Website Owners Debated At ICANN 12/07/2005 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch 2 Comments Luxembourg City–Among the many issues arising at this week’s meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is how to improve the accuracy and privacy of the database of contact information about Internet website owners. The so-called Whois database is the collection of names and addresses of people who register websites, made […]
Participation High For WIPO Online Public Forum, Official Says 21/06/2005 by Allison A. Meyer for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment An online forum hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organisation aimed at shaping WIPO’s contribution to the upcoming World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) generated a large turnout, according to a senior WIPO official. “We have gotten a great deal of response,” Richard Owens, director of the Copyright, E-Commerce, Technology and Management Division at […]