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KnowRight 2010
http://knowright2010.ocg.at/
European Union agenda concerning intellectual property rights
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| I participated in the KnowRiÂht conference in
| Vienna, Austria, where I was invited on
| ultrashort notice to give a speech on "Software
| Patents, Standards & Competition".
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| The big controversy at that conference clearly
| related to the future of the European patent
| (and patent court) system. I will report on
| that in a later post. Previously I'd like to
| summarize the outline of intellectual property
| rights matters on the EU agenda that a European
| Commission official gave at the conference.
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| Before I get into details of Dr. Jens Gaster's
| comments, I have to mention that he pointed out
| at the beginning of his speech that he was not
| acting as a spokesman of the institution that
| employs him (the European Commission) but
| instead in a personal capacity as a lecturer.
| It was an academic conference and Dr. Gaster
| continues to pursue an academic career in
| addition to his work for the Commission.
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http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/05/european-union-agenda-concerning.html
Recent:
Open Government Data in Austria
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| Open government data initiatives around the
| world are a big chance to make a change and
| present success stories and incentives to the
| public and policy makers. Of course, it will be
| a question of which data sets to open and what
| the consequences are. In a workshop with Rufus
| Pollock we could see that there are big
| differences between Austrian and Anglo-American
| and Scandinavian mentality: before we do
| something, we think out all possible (bad)
| consequences. Which is good, but firstly, this
| might take a while, secondly, we might think of
| more problems than there will actually turn
| out, and thirdly, sometimes the overall social
| benefit will just exceed costs.
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http://blog.okfn.org/2010/04/28/open-government-data-in-austria/
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