May 5, 2005
More from Martin Khor
Some have asked about Martin Khor's report
from day 1 of the WIPO seminar in IP and development.
Here's
a link to Martin's "summary."
It is similiarly grossly biased and misleading to his
repo ...
May 5, 2005
Catania's Bad Idea Moves Forward
The Washington Post reports
that the D.C. price control and compulsory licensing bill has taken a step
forward in the D.C. government.
Though the Post makes it sound like it passed, my understan ...
May 5, 2005
Brazil Spurns $40 million U.S. Funding for AIDS
The (U.K.) Guardian reports that Brazil
has turned down an offer of $40 million from the U.S. towards AIDS programs.
The reason? Because Brazil refuses to agree to a declaration condemning
. . ...
May 4, 2005
Here's a Gem by Martin Khor
Here's another guy you gotta love.
Martin Khor is with the Third World Network, another of these anti-capitalist,
anti-corporate groups. He's a fanatical opponent of intellectual property.
...
May 4, 2005
More examples of Jamie Love's Exaggerations about H.R. 417
Here's another example of how Jamie Love
"leverages chatter"--takes something meaningless and unimportant,
and then exaggerates it until you'd think it's a major global trend.
Here's a
link to ...
May 4, 2005
Ya Gotta Love This Guy
At this week's Int'l Seminar on Intellectual
Property and Development, Jamie Love once again trumpeted H.R. 417, a novelty
bill with no co-sponsors and no corresponding bill in the Senate. I covered ...
May 4, 2005
Catania's Bad Idea in DC
I thought intellectual property wasn't
"real" property?
At least that's what opponents of intellectual property have always said.
But now, apparently, those who attack intellectual property ar ...
May 4, 2005
Interesting story on privacy risks of file-sharing
I'm just now watching a story on the CBS
Evening News (from Geneva) on the privacy risks of file-sharing software.
The blame is on the users of the software,
who allow the software access to thin ...
May 4, 2005
Shallow, scattered comments on Geneva
Some shallow, scattered comments on Geneva
just a few hours before I head to the airport:
The President Wilson hotel is superior
to the Hilton Noga hotel, for slightly less money. Amazing servic ...
May 3, 2005
Jamie Love's weak grasp on the facts
I've been watching Jamie Love of CPTech
long enough now to have a feel for his technique. And it's fascinating.
Jamie's technique is to redefine terms, make unsustainable assertions,
leverage c ...
May 3, 2005
Overall impression of the WIPO Int'l Seminar
Well, things are winding to a close. I
have several more postings that are still in draft version, but it's not
too soon to make the obvious conclusion about the seminar:
1. Copyright got a fai ...
May 3, 2005
The Ideological War Over Intellectual Property
Mark Schultz has an
interesting piece on what is happening at WIPO.
What Mark does not go into is how WIPO actually works. The fact is that
we have nothing to fear from WIPO itself. WIPO's mand ...
May 3, 2005
Busybodies vs. Creators
One other interesting observation I've
made as the 2-day seminar at WIPO is drawing to a close: Most of those
who have spoken sceptically about IP would fall into the category of "busybodies"--peopl ...
May 2, 2005
A property right is control, not use
We are all accustomed to hearing from the
IP sceptics that "IP isn't like real property." The argument
is that, unlike real property, when you access a piece of intellectual
property, you do not de ...
May 2, 2005
Legal monopoly is not necessarily a market monopoly
On the Competition Policy panel, Peter
Plompen of Philips made an important point in his presentation: a legal
monopoly is not per se a market monopoly. This is a point that proponents
of IP need t ...
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