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The EU Ombudsman is running a consultation on how to improve the transparency of the TTIP negotiations.  This shouldn't be hard, ...

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...

There finally seems to be a growing recognition in many countries that copyright is not fit for the digital age. In the US, the Copyrig...

One of the problems with the debates around copyright and patents is that they too often assume that intellectual monopolies are necessar...

ACTA and TPP have much in common. That's no coincidence, since they are both born of a common desire to move away from multilateral f...

Somehow you rather expect the head of the WIPO to come out with a statement on the potential benefits of patenting the World Wide Web. Bu...

I frequently cover the subject of copyright on this blog because increasingly it is impacting the lives of readers, both as individuals a...

You wouldn't expect much else from a meeting organised by WIPO, but this is pretty rich even for them: Copyright is necessary to allow ...

In a couple of weeks' time, the World Copyright Summit takes place in Brussels: Creating value in the digital economy The World Copyrig...

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

A couple of days ago I wrote that ACTA was doomed because its attempts to enforce copyright through even more punitive measures will simply...

As I wrote recently in my Open... blog, copyright is about making a fair deal: in return for a government-supported, time-limited monopoly, ...

The ever-vigilant James Love pointed to this fascinating submission from the UK's venerable Royal National Institute of the Blind [. pdf...

Wow : On the secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, Gurry said that WIPO too did not know a great deal about the talks. “Naturally w...

If you still doubted that intellectual monopolies are in part a neo-colonialist plot to ensure the continuing dominance of Western nations, ...

Something strange is happening at the WIPO: it's becoming more reasonable. Where once it was a bastion of intellectual monopoly intransi...

As you may have heard, there's been a bit of a to-do over a new “Open Cloud Manifesto.” Here's the central idea: The industry needs ...

WIPO has just published a study entitled Dissemination of Patent Information. I've not read it, but here's someone who has, with ...

As I've written elsewhere today, there's a lot of activity happening around software patents at the moment. One forum where they&#...

Michael Geist has been warning about this for a while, and now the beast is out : Today the Government of Canada introduced long-overdue and...