July 8, 2005
Google seems intent on elbowing into other people's content
Very interesting article in the Wall
Street Journal yesterday on how
Google's efforts to move into video search efforts are stepping on the
toes of those who actually own the content, like Major Le ...
July 6, 2005
EU rejects software patent directive
The European Parliament has, unwisely,
rejected the software patent directive ("Computer-Implemented Inventions
directive") by a huge margin. Here's
a link to a story.
Here's
a link to a story ...
July 6, 2005
If you're really big on international declarations and agreements . . .
Some of our IP-skeptic friends are really
big on international agreements, declarations, and treaties.
In my cynical view, the IP-skeptic community has decided that they can't
get what they wan ...
June 27, 2005
The open question about the Grokster decision
I should note, for the record, that a remaining
concern about the Grokster decision is whether the decision creates
a secondary liability doctrine. Having not yet read the decision, I'll
get to is ...
June 27, 2005
IPI's press release on the Grokster decision
IPI welcomes this morning's unanimous decision
by the Supreme Court in MGM vs. Grokster, holding that companies
can be held liable for the distribution of products or services clearly
intended to ...
June 27, 2005
Free Culture's track record in the Supreme Court
Anybody want to consider the Free Culture
movement's track record of success with the Supreme Court?
Eldred,
anyone? Grokster? ...
June 27, 2005
It may not be IP, but it's P
My friend Dr. Richard Epstein has a devastating
piece in criticism of the Kelo decision in today's WSJ.
Epstein calls the decision "truly horrible", "shameful",
"regrettable", "scandalous and c ...
June 27, 2005
File-sharing companies, ala Grokster, can be held liable
After the Kelo decision, I despaired of
anything approaching sound decision-making from the Supreme Court, but
apparently they got it right on Grokster.
"We hold that
one who distributes a devi ...
June 25, 2005
In case you think I'm exaggerating when I say they're trying to fundamentally change WIPO
In case you think I'm
exaggering when I say that the forces behind the "development agenda"
for WIPO are trying to fundamentally change the organization's mission,
are on a utopian crusade, think I ...
June 22, 2005
Second intervention delivered by the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) at WIPO's IIM/2 on a proposed development agenda
The following is the text of an intervention
(the second) delivered by the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) to
the WIPO IIM/2 on a proposed development agenda:
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
...
June 21, 2005
India delegation to WIPO seems out-of-touch with the reality on the ground in India
According
to a story in today's Financial Times,
India is planning an aggressive expansion into biotech in the next five
years.
India's science minister recognizes that this will require substa ...
June 20, 2005
IPI's first intervention at WIPO's IIM/2
The following is the text of an intervention
delivered by the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) to the World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO) on Monday, June 20, during WIPO's second in ...
June 20, 2005
Canada believes IP protection is very important
. . . so said their delegate to WIPO a
little while ago.
I guess he means patent IP, not copyright IP. Else why would official Canada
law be that it's okay for Canadians to download copyright ma ...
June 20, 2005
Getting under the thin skin of the anti-IP crowd
One of the first problems I identified
when getting involved with WIPO is that all these IP-skeptic groups (TransAtlantic
Consumer Dialogue, Third World Network, Union for the Public Domain, IP
Jus ...
June 20, 2005
China dragging on IP protection, discussed at Dallas-area conference
At
a conference held near Dallas last week, China's need to do more to protect
IP was discussed.
Interestingly, the story reminds us that China invalidated the patent on
Viagra. Viagra has been ...
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