Showing posts with label intellectual monopolies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label intellectual monopolies. Show all posts
24 November 2013

Misleading Figures Used To Puff Up Importance Of Intellectual Monopolies In Europe

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We've noted before attempts to inflate the importance of copyright, patents and trademarks by including a bunch of other sectors that...
23 November 2013

US Ambassador To The UN Says WIPO Too Biased Against IP Holders

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Back in 2010, Techdirt reported on a fairly remarkable comment from the US ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Betty E. King, who said at a p...

The Joy Of Monopolies: Orphan Drug Price Increasing By Nearly 40% Each Year

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A couple of years ago, Techdirt carried an article by Andy Kessler about the difference between entrepreneurs who create value, and thos...
18 September 2013

Africa's Ancient Plant Diversity And Seed Independence Under Threat, Supposedly In The Name Of Progress

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As Africa continues to develop rapidly, Western countries and companies are increasingly interested in bringing it into existing internat...
13 May 2013

How Publishers Have Fought Against the Treaty for the Blind

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One of the most disgraceful manifestations of the callousness of copyright maximalists is their 30-year refusal to countenance any meaningf...
09 March 2013

IIPA Wants Canada And Spain On The 'Naughty' Special 301 List Even Though They Brought In Tough New Copyright Laws

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Here on Techdirt, one of the things we look forward to each year is the comedy production known as the 301 Report, where the US makes the...
11 November 2012

Will Proposed Pan-Africa Intellectual Property Organization Enable The West To Impose Its Monopolies?

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Back in May, Techdirt pointed to a presentation from Mike Palmedo listing a wide range of research that demonstrates the lack of a conn...
02 March 2012

Does Guernsey Really Want To Become Famous -- And Ostracized -- For Introducing Image Rights?

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Just as the original term of copyright has been constantly extended from the original 14 years in the Statute of Anne, so the the scope of...
24 November 2011

SABAM: A Turning Point in EU Internet Law?

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One of the most striking - and disturbing - trends of recent years has been the assumption by the copyright industries that protecting th...
12 November 2011

Misleading Metaphors That Drive The War On Online Sharing

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Certain terms crop up time and again in the arguments around copyright infringement and file sharing. Words like "theft" and &q...
09 November 2011

Which Causes More Harm: Copyright Or Patents?

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One of the recurrent themes on Techdirt is the harm caused by intellectual monopolies – copyright and patents – to the economy in particu...
01 November 2011

What Exactly Makes A Pop-Up Mall A Pop-Up Mall? On Second Thought, Who Cares?

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One of the pernicious effects of once-obscure legal issues surrounding copyright and patents seeping into everyday life is the belief tha...
04 October 2011

Brazil Drafts An 'Anti-ACTA': A Civil Rights-Based Framework For The Internet

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One of the striking features of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is that it is mainly being signed by Western/“developed” countries...
26 July 2011

Why We Should - and Can - Abolish All Patents

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As long-suffering readers will know, I've been warning about the growing problem of patent thickets in the field of software for some ti...
11 July 2011

To Defend Android Google Must Attack Software Patents

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Android is under serious threat. Not so much commercially, where it continues to trounce its rivals and take an ever-larger market share aro...
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06 June 2011

The Great Prize: Innovating Without Monopolies

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Last week I was in Brussels, talking at the European Parliament - not, I hasten to add, talking to the Parliament. This was a more intimate ...
30 May 2011

The Guardian: Yes, but of What?

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I wrote last week about a curious article in the Guardian calling for “caution” on open source. And now we have another odd piece: The sad t...
30 April 2011

Moral Bankruptcy of the Copyright Industry

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As anyone who has followed the area for a while learns, the copyright industry has an extraordinary sense of entitlement. It seems to think...
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26 April 2011

Breaking the Monopoly of Celebration

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Today is apparently something called " World Intellectual Property Day ". How bizarre to be celebrating government-backed monopol...
20 April 2011

How Can Your Content Live After You Die?

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The current computer scene is notable for the role played by user-generated content (UGC): Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube etc. are all d...
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