Media Coverage
16 Jul, 2009: IP Justice in Financial Times on ICANN Being Driven by Commercial Interests
"Icann is full of people who work for corporations and think that Icann should be run like one. When I try to remind people that it is a not-for-profit public benefit organisation, they look at me like I am mad. Icann is dominated by commercial stakeholder groups" said Robin Gross, a cyberspace rights lawyer, and executive director of IP ...18 Apr, 2009: Robin Gross on CBC Radio’s “As It Happens” to Discuss Sweden’s Pirate Bay Legal Decision
9 Feb, 2009: ACTA, ISP Liability, Limitations & Exceptions Top Global Copyright Issues in 2009 (IP-Watch)
"The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement has sparked an outcry from public interest groups. “The speed with which it has been rushed through - and the secrecy of the meetings and the provisions is alarming,” said IP Justice Executive Director Robin Gross. ACTA will make routine surveillance of laptops, iPods and other devices in the hope of finding questionable music, videos and ...6 Feb, 2009: Battaglia di copyright sul poster-icona di Obama (La Repubblica)
Il suo poster, con i colori della bandiera americana e la scritta "Hope", speranza, ha fatto il giro del mondo, è stato riprodotto in migliaia di riviste e siti Internet, diventando il simbolo della campagna per le presidenziali di Barack Obama. Ma ora Shepard Fairey, il 38enne illustratore di Los Angeles che con quella locandina ha acquisito fama mondiale, si ...4 Feb, 2009: AP Alleges Copyright Infringement of Obama Image (Associated Press)
"Robin Gross, an intellectual property attorney who heads IP Justice, an international civil liberties organization, believes that Fairey had the right to use the photo, saying that he intended it for a political cause, not commercial use. "Fairey's purpose of the use for the photo was political or civic, and this will certainly count in favor of the poster ...24 Sep, 2008: Secret ACTA Treaty Emerges Blinking into Sunlight (Ars Technica)
The much-maligned, drafted-in-secret, Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is an odd beast. It's being drafted by a group that includes the US, the EU, and Japan... but also Canada, Mexico, and Korea, which are on US Trade Representative's "special 301" watch list for intellectual property problems. No draft of the text has yet been revealed, even though the goal was to push ...15 Sep, 2008: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement: Fact or Fiction? (Wired)
"There's been speculation for months concerning the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. If ratified, many suggest it would criminalize peer-to-peer file sharing, subject iPods to border searches and allow internet service providers to monitor their customers' communications. Dozens of special-interests groups on Monday urged the trade representatives from those nations to disclose the language of the evolving agreement in a bid ...10 Sep, 2008: Proposed Copyright Law a ‘Gift’ to Hollywood, Info Groups Say (Wired)
"If the Senate version becomes law, it is not immediately clear how the Justice Department's expanded powers would work in practice. For example, would the department assume the role of the Recording Industry Association of America, which has sued more than 30,000 people in the United States for copyright infringement since 2003?..."6 Jul, 2008: Public’ online spaces don’t carry speech, rights (Associated Press)
First Amendment protections generally do not extend to private property in the physical world, allowing a shopping mall to legally kick out a customer wearing a T-shirt with a picture of a smoking child. With online services becoming greater conduits than shopping malls for public communications, however, some advocacy groups believe the federal government needs to guarantee open access ...6 Jul, 2008: ICAAN – Preventing Hatred v. Censorship of TLD Applications (Digital Journal)
With all the excitement over expansion of IP addresses to be expanded from 4-string to 6-string format, little has been reported on the current and proposed regulations to restrict new domain registration. Watchdogs are deeply concerned over censorship. ....- View all entries under Media Coverage