May 12, 2005
Good column on CAFTA in Washington Times
This
is a better-than-average defense of CAFTA,
and a rebuttal to the
outrageous column I mentioned yesterday.
...
May 12, 2005
Outrageous column in SJ Mercury News
The San Jose Mercury News published
an
outrageous op/ed trotting out once again the leftist conspiratorial view
on trade harmonization legislation, this time CAFTA.
We'll definitely be submitting ...
May 12, 2005
WSJ says Russia is world's biggest exporter of pirated music products
According to the Wall Street Journal
today, Russia is the world's largest exporter of pirated music products,
and the pirates are being protected through cozy relationships with corrupt
politicians ...
May 11, 2005
Microsoft and Sun?
Jim DeLong has a
note about Sun perhaps getting cozier with Microsoft.
I toured the Sun facilities about 4 years ago, and saw a very compelling
display of their thin client, server-driven envir ...
May 11, 2005
Thanks to Jacob for the plug
Thanks to my friend (and sometime IPI author)
Jacob Arfwedson in Paris who
paid complements to IPBlog.org on CNE's intellectual property blog. ...
May 9, 2005
Pirates of Brazil, etc.
Article
in today's Washington Times on Brazil, piracy, and whether the U.S. should
be making nice or cracking down on Brazil for significant trade violations--especially
IP.
A couple of comment ...
May 9, 2005
Blame corruption, taxes, unions and regulations--not IP
An interesting article in today's Wall
Street Journal illustrates some of the real barriers that poor nations
throw in the way of their domestic inventors and entrepreneurs
It's on page A20 in ...
May 6, 2005
Some pictures from the WIPO Int'l Seminar on IP and Development
For those who may be interested, here are
some photos from the WIPO Int'l Seminar on IP and Development.
First, this is the rear of the main auditorium, showing the translators'
offices, where t ...
May 6, 2005
Pakistan is getting with the program on piracy
Pakistan is getting with the program on piracy,
according to this
story from India's Zee News. ...
May 6, 2005
Interesting article describing the GPL-infection problem
Here's
an interesting article describing the GPL-infection problem.
You have to read down into the body of the article to get to the good stuff.
Note that a deal with IBM (ahem) fell through
whe ...
May 6, 2005
Good article on piracy in the Malaysia Star.
Good
article on piracy in the Malaysia
Star.
An excerpt:
Piracy is pulling the plug on a potentially lucrative
local software industry.
Aspiring software companies fight a losing battle wh ...
May 6, 2005
FCC's Broadcast flag rules thrown out
Here's
the story by Declan.
I support the broadcast flag requirement, but this decision gets it right,
it seems to me. I always thought legislation was the appropriate place
for a requirement s ...
May 6, 2005
Let's see your open source tee shirts
In a discussion thread on this blog, I
challenged a critic to try to live an IP-free life for some brief period
of time. My point is the obvious
hypocrisy of those who claim that all sorts of wonde ...
May 5, 2005
USTR has released list of baddies on IP
The office of the USTR has released this
year's "Special 301" report, which reviews the protection of
IP in 90 countries. The report is best known for its categorization of
countries specially targ ...
May 5, 2005
WIPO has released draft report from IIM/1
WIPO has released the
draft report from the first meeting
of the April Inter-Sessional Intergovernmental Meeting on a Development
Agenda for WIPO.
IPI's intervention is summarized on
pages 92-9 ...
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