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Israel: one month to end software patents
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| I need help contacting groups in Israel.
| With a February deadline, the Israeli
| patent office is asking if it should grant
| software patents. To help, join this
| mailing list: israel-public-
| discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx As usual,
| the small businesses, individual
| programmers, and software user groups donât
| seem to have noticed this consultation.
| This is common in public consultations â
| but you can bet the lawyers groups and the
| multinationals are aware and working on
| their submissions. So I need help with
| informing people in Israel now so they have
| some time to get prepare submissions. More
| info below.
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http://news.swpat.org/2010/01/israel-consultation-deadline-february/
The fate of WIPO, ACTA, and other intellectual property pushes in the international economy
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| As I understand the argument, the
| institutions responsible for passing new
| rules respond to the most powerful
| countries. The US and Europe are on the
| decline in these organizations. All the
| countries that benefit from looser IP
| regimes--China, India, Brazil--are growing
| in economic strength and are finding
| themselves in more and more seats at the
| tables of the world's closed economic
| institutions. For just one concrete
| example, look at the shift of
| responsibility in recent years from the G-7
| to the G-20. The G-7 is a familiar set of
| countries that were powerful from the 1950s
| through the 1970s. The G-20 is truly
| diverse, bringing in strong economies from
| around the world (but still just the ones
| with some international economic clout).
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http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/01/the-fate-of-wipo-acta-and-othe.html
Governments stifle hi-tech innovation, says trade group
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| Government needs to do more to encourage
| innovation, America's first chief
| technology officer has been told.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8447649.stm
Related:
An Economist Questions Intellectual Monopolies
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| Copyrights and patents are government granted monopolies. They have their
| origins in the feudal guild system, not the free market economics of Smith
| and Ricardo. In fact, at the end of the 19th century, Switzerland and the
| Netherlands actually eliminated patent and copyright protection, with the
| intent of promoting free market competition. In spite of their feudal legacy,
| and their obvious status as forms of protectionism, few economists ever
| question the merits of the patent and copyright systems.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/01/economist-questions-intellectual.html
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