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Major Victory Against Neo-colonial Patents
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| Patents are bad enough, because they
| enclose knowledge. But when they steal that
| knowledge from the lore of traditional
| medicine, it's a double crime - adding a
| dash of neo-colonialism to the mix. So
| here's some good news on that front:
|
| The Opposition Division of the European
| Patent Office (EPO) has today revoked a
| patent granted to Dr. Willmar Schwabe
| (Schwabe) in its entirety. The patent
| was opposed by the African Centre for
| Biosafety (ACB) from South Africa
| acting on behalf of a rural community
| in Alice, in the Eastern Cape, in
| collaboration with the Swiss anti-
| biopiracy watchdog, the Berne
| Declaration.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/01/major-victory-against-neo-colonial.html
Brazil's proposal at WIPO on patent limitations and exceptions (SCP/14/7)
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| On January 15, 2010 the Permanent Mission
| of Brazil to the World Trade Organization
| and other economic organizations in Geneva
| submitted a proposal to the World
| Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
| The Brazilian note verbale to WIPO notes
| that the proposal:
|
| "aims at contributing to the discussion
| of exceptions and limitations to patent
| rights. . . While not purporting to
| cover all interfaces of the matter with
| development concerns, it emphasizes the
| importance of promoting a wide and
| sustained debate on the issue in the
| SCP".
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http://keionline.org/node/769
Recalibrating Intellectual Monopolies
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| "The Public Domain is the rule, copyright
| protection is the exception": sounds like a
| good encapsulation to me - let's start
| spreading it.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/01/recalibrating-intellectual-monopolies.html
Brian Eno Explains How The Recording Industry Is Like Whale Blubber
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| Then I go back to my computer, and see an
| anonymous submission of a wonderfully
| brilliant interview with music legend Brian
| Eno... and right there at the end, he has a
| beautiful description of what's happening
| to the recording industry -- comparing it
| to whale blubber:
|
| "I think records were just a little
| bubble through time and those who made
| a living from them for a while were
| lucky. There is no reason why anyone
| should have made so much money from
| selling records except that everything
| was right for this period of time. I
| always knew it would run out sooner or
| later. It couldn't last, and now it's
| running out. I don't particularly care
| that it is and like the way things are
| going. The record age was just a blip.
| It was a bit like if you had a source
| of whale blubber in the 1840s and it
| could be used as fuel. Before gas came
| along, if you traded in whale blubber,
| you were the richest man on Earth. Then
| gas came along and you'd be stuck with
| your whale blubber. Sorry mate --
| history's moving along. Recorded music
| equals whale blubber. Eventually,
| something else will replace it."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100120/2249557850.shtml
South Butt David versus North Face Goliath
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| The North Face filed the lawsuit, claiming
| that The South Butt is confusingly similar
| to The North Face, in violation of North
| Face's trademark rights.
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http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000002426
Vancouver Olympics 'Brand Protection Guidelines' Almost Entirely Arbitrary
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100114/1227357759.shtml
The Legacy of Baker Street
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| The law gives an author and the authorâs
| descendants more than adequate control over
| creative work â a minimum of the authorâs
| life plus 70 years. The public is better
| served if copyrights have a reasonable
| limit. Sherlock Holmes should belong to us
| all right now.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/opinion/24sun4.html?th&emc=th
Recent:
RIAA in pickle over Jammie Thomas ruling
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| The music industry will have to make some
| very tough choices within the next week
| about file sharer Jammie Thomas-Rasset.
|
| The Recording Industry Association of
| America wants to put the Thomas-Rasset
| affair behind it. The Brainerd, Minn.,
| mother--who refused to settle with the RIAA
| for $5,000 over copyright infringement
| allegations, instead fighting it out in
| court--has been found liable of willful
| copyright infringement by two different
| juries and was ordered to pay damages of
| $222,000 in her first trial (a decision
| later thrown out) and $1.9 million last
| June in her retrial.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-10440602-261.html
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