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EU's IP Negotiating Strategy With Canada Leaks: Calls 2009 Copyright Consult a "Tactic to Confuse"
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| Now a second document has leaked, though
| it is not currently available online. The
| Wire Report reports that an EU document
| dated November 16, 2009, features candid
| comments about Canada and the EU strategy.
| The document, called a "Barrier Hymn
| Sheet" leaves little doubt about the EU's
| objective:
|
| Put pressure on Canada so that they take
| IPR issues seriously and remedy the many
| shortcomings of their IPR protection and
| enforcement regime.
|
| Having viewed the document, I can report
| that it goes downhill from there,
| promoting the key message that Canadian
| laws are inadequate, while liberally
| quoting a report from the Canadian IP
| Council and discredited counterfeiting
| data.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4704/125/
Google guns for a superheroine
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| It seems there's an online comic book
| called "I Am Googol". In the story, the
| leather-clad super heroine has an
| extraordinary brain that enables her to
| process more than one googol of data per
| second - which sounds a bit lame to us as
| super powers go, but she would be great at
| splitting the bill in a restaurant. The
| character's creator, Sylvaine Francis,
| says she was born when she found the word
| and its definition "completely at random"
| one day.
|
| Sylvaine has some rather ambitious plans
| to turn "I Am Googol" into a movie but,
| without wishing to rain on her obvious
| enthusiasm for her creation, a ranking of
| 1,634th on the Webcomic list and 140
| Facebook fans - including, for the
| purposes of research, your humble author -
| seem hardly likely to have James Cameron
| beating a path to her door.
|
| Unfortunately for "I Am Googol" and her
| creator, trying to file a trademark
| registration for the comic book character
| has attracted the attention of Google's
| lawyers.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/187108/ati_cards_so_easy_to_install_that_a_monkey_could_do_it.html?tk=rss_news
Declaring War on European Computer Users
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| "Eradicate piracy"? This man either knows
| nothing about the technology or nothing
| about people. Seeking to eradicate
| "piracy" is about as sensible as seeking
| to eradicate "drugs" or "terrorism": it
| shows yet another politician happy to
| mouth platitudes without any thought for
| their real consequences, which would be
| nothing less than declaring war on
| hundreds of millions of European computer
| users. The next few years are beginning to
| look grim.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/01/declaring-war-on-european-computer.html
Commons in a taxonomy of goods
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| Collective property is collectively owned
| private property or private property for
| collective purposes. Among them, there are
| common property and public (state)
| property. All designations of private
| property are basically valid here. There
| are various forms of collective property,
| for instance stock corporation, house
| owner community, nationally-owned
| enterprise.
|
| Free goods (also: Res nullius, Terra
| nullius or no manâs land) are legally or
| socially unregulated goods under free
| access. The often cited âTragedy of
| Commonsâ is a tragedy of no manâs land,
| which is overly used or destroyed due to
| missing rules of usage. Such no manâs
| lands do exist yet today, e.g. in high-sea
| or deep-sea.â
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http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/commons-in-a-taxonomy-of-goods/2010/01/16
Oink.CD â Oinkâs Pink Palace Part One
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| The acquittal of OINK.CD admin Alan Ellis
| has caused a firestorm of confusion across
| the net, with comments flying fast and
| furious claiming just about anything you
| can imagine, and a lot you probably
| couldnât imagine. The problem is that so
| far we donât know a lot. After the initial
| raid the police and prosecutor in England
| went silent, and to the best of my
| knowledge some of the major pieces in the
| case (like the original search warrant)
| are still not available for analysis.
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http://madhatter.ca/?p=142
If Your Options Are To Change With The Times Or To Just Complain About Them, Which Is More Likely To Work?
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| Anthony Biedenkapp was the first of a few
| of you to send in a blog post from DJ
| Shadow where he complains about the state
| of the music industry. While I disagree
| with an awful lot of what he writes, it is
| worth reading. It is thoughtful and
| obviously from the heart.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100105/1021527619.shtml
Introducing The Alexandria Project
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=201001171846402
Recent:
Adding up the explanations for ACTA's "shameful secret"
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| Why is an intellectual property treaty being
| negotiated in the name of the US public kept
| quiet as a matter of national security and
| treated as "some shameful secret"?
|
| Solid information on the Anti-Counterfeiting
| Trade Agreement (ACTA) has been hard to come
| by, but Google on Monday hosted a panel
| discussion on ACTA at its DC offices. Much of
| the discussion focused on transparency, and
| why there's so little of it on ACTA, even from
| an administration that has made transparency
| one of its key goals.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/01/actas-shameful-secret.ars
U.S. Ambassador David Jacobson â Intellectual Property Rights
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| Well, Ambassador, a lot of Canadians donât
| think U.S. Intellectual Property Laws are in
| the best interest of Americans or Canadians
| either. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act
| of 1998 comes to mind. Do you have any proof
| (specifically peer reviewed studies) proving
| that the DMCA has any benefit to the citizens
| of the United States? And if you donât have
| any proof, when do you intend to provide it?
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http://madhatter.ca/?p=117
Oh, a new ACTA document
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| How do you request it? Very simple, fill out
| the form and enter the document number
| 17779/09 as the document you request. Then
| the Council secretariat has 15 days to
| respond, either it would grant you access
| and submit the reasons for refusal.
|
| Here is stops for most persons. You have
| against 15 days for a confirmatory
| application. When the confirmatory
| application is denied you can complain to
| the EU-Ombudsman or sue the Commission.
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http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/oh-a-new-acta-document/
Google DC Talk on ACTA
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| Why does DG Trade want criminal sanctions
| from third nations when these instruments
| are not adopted in the âacquis
| communautaireâ yet? Unfortunately we cannot
| find out in their negotiation mandate from
| the Council because it is not disclosed.
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http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/oh-a-new-acta-document/
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