Here is IP Think Tank’s weekly selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and internet.
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Highlights this week included:
Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge sue US Trade Representative over allegedly insufficient disclosure under US Freedom of Information Act concerning Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement negotiations: ( EFF ), ( Public Knowledge ), ( Intellectual Property Watch ), ( Ars Technica ), ( Excess Copyright ), ( Public Knowledge ),
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Today in history is another black day in the Palestinian history.
1. On October 29, 1948, when Israeli brigades captured the village of Safsaf. The known details of the massacre come to us via... ... more
(Originally posted on Daily Kos.) The ACLU and Electronic Frontier Foundation have received several batches of Justice Department documents in response to our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request (and subsequent lawsuit) for …
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Deeplinks Blog reports that the state of Tenennsee has now required its colleges to filter their Internet connections for copyrighted works if they receive more than 50 claims of infringement.
While the entertainment industry failed to get “hard” requirements for universities in the Higher Education Act passed by Congress earlier this year, the RIAA succeeded in Tennessee (and is pushi... more
Apple’s attempt to quash an effort to help the latest iPods and iPhones work with non-Apple software such as the Linux operating system is out of line, the Electronic Frontier Foundation said Tuesday. Earlier this month, a lawyer from Apple’s legal counsel, O’Melveny & Myers, managed to get an open source project called the iPodhash pulled from Bluwiki, a free Web site used to create... more
The US House of Representatives passed on Sunday the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008, a bill introducing stiffer penalties for IP infringement including copyright violation and counterfeiting of goods and services.
The bill has faced stiff opposition from some quarters, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, while receiving strong backing from music and movie [...]... more
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- Last year, the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) reported WIPO Member States had decided to postpone holding an intergovernmental diplomatic conference to adopt the controversial Broadcasting Treaty, writes Gwen Hinze (right in Deep Links.
And, it looked as though the WIPO Broadcasting Treaty would, “go to the more remote wards [...]... more
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA’s case in Boston against a 24-year-old grad student, SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum, in which Prof. Charles Nesson of Harvard Law School, along with members of his CyberLaw class, are representing the defendant, may shape up as a showdown between the Electronic Frontier and Big Music. The defendant’s witness list includes names such as those of Prof. Lawrence Lessig (Author of ’Free Culture’), John Perry Barlow (former songwriter of The ... more
Here is IP Thinktank’s weekly selection of top intellectual property events reported in the blogosphere and internet.
Please let us know if there is an important IP event that you think we should include.
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Events
15-16 September: UniForum & SAIIPL domain name ADR workshop – Centurion (South Afr... more
Changes to Global Week in Review
(From Marie Mortimer, our Intellectual Capital Manager)
Since the ‘Events’ section of the Global Week in Review has become quite lengthy we have opted to remove it from the Global Week in Review and post it separately as IP Thinktank Events. Going forward we will post IP Thinktank Events on the first Monday of the month. As the events reported take place over the coming months and are therefore not bein... more
If you want people to do something really well, then engage and motivate them. The most successful organisations when it comes to intellectual property strategy are those that have full engagement from their entire team. So how do you achieve this? 1 - set your intellectual property strategy goals (based on business or corporate goals) - make them achievable and concrete; 2 - delve deep until you really understand the behaviours you need from the entire team to achieve these goals; 3 - ... more
Here is IP Think Tank’s weekly selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and internet.
Please join the discussion by adding your comments on any of these stories, and please do let us know if you think we’ve missed something important, or if there is a source you think should be monitored.
You can separately subscribe to the IP Thinktank Global week in Review at the Subscribe page: http://duncanbucknell.com/subscribe/
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