Media Coverage
17 Apr, 2008: Internet Bill of Rights Coalition on “Search Engine” (CBC Radio)
Radio interview (.mp3) of Robin Gross and Robert Guerra discuss the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Dynamic Coalition for an Internet Bill of Rights on CBC's "Search Engine" with host Jesse Brown.4 Mar, 2008: Business, Governments See Momentum For ACTA, But EU Snags (IP-Watch)
"Critics Raise Doubts on Narrow ACTA Process. But some ACTA critics say that is not enough, and that developing countries and civil society groups not part of the inter-governmental discussions are at a disadvantage from the outset. "These talks have all been going on between a select handful of countries that will basically decide what the parameters of ...19 Nov, 2007: Open Standards, Access To Knowledge Discussed At IGF (IP-Watch)
"Intellectual property-related issues were a topic avoided by governments during the 2003-2005 World Summit on the Information Society, which gave way to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). But at the second IGF in Rio de Janeiro last week there were several IP-related workshops. Organisers of the dynamic coalitions on open standards, access to knowledge and the newly formed coalition ...12 Nov, 2007: Internet Domain Name Censorship Vote Delayed (Toward Freedom)
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which makes policy governing the Internet's Domain Name System, recently held its 30th International Public Meeting in Los Angeles. ICANN has stumbled into serious controversy as it threatens to establish policies for systematic censorship of generic top-level domains ("gTLDs" such as '.com' or '.org'), and it left these issues unresolved as ...30 Oct, 2007: Internet Governance Forum To Return To Critical Internet Resources Issue (IP-Watch)
"The upcoming second Internet Governance Forum in Rio de Janeiro will have a very broad agenda with over thirty workshops, 22 best practice forums and 10 meetings of dynamic coalitions specialising in key issues such as access, diversity, openness and security. One outstanding issue at the 12-15 November forum is the renewed debate about critical Internet resources like IP ...29 Sep, 2007: WIPO Launches New Agenda on IP and Development (IP-Watch)
"The member governments of the World Intellectual Property Organization on Friday formally adopted a new Development Agenda, launching an enhanced development orientation across all of its activities, with details on implementation to be determined later. “This is an important day,” Argentina Ambassador Alberto Dumont told a press briefing. “Our group is very pleased with the result that was achieved.” But ...9 May, 2007: Worldwide DMCA-style decryption rules still a possibility at WIPO (Ars Technica)
A coalition of consumer groups and corporations that includes everyone from IP Justice to AT&T has just issued a statement calling on the US WIPO delegation to oppose WIPO's proposed Broadcast Treaty in its current form. In the letter, the groups worry that the treaty's support for worldwide legal rules regulating any device that can decrypt video signals "would presumably ...1 Mar, 2007: Web Site Owners May Get Tougher to Find (National Law Journal)
"An organization that polices the domain name system is likely to decide this year -- after several years of debate -- to adopt a new policy that would let Web site owners keep most of their contact information confidential when they register for a name. Instead, they would be allowed to list a separate go-between point of contact."28 Feb, 2007: Web Site Owners May Get Tougher to Find (National Law Journal)
"An organization that polices the domain name system is likely to decide this year -- after several years of debate -- to adopt a new policy that would let Web site owners keep most of their contact information confidential when they register for a name. Instead, they would be allowed to list a separate go-between point of contact. The ...15 Feb, 2007: Internet Governance Forum: Is it More Than Talk? (IP Watch)
Multi-stakeholder “dynamic coalitions” of the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) are pushing to have privacy, intellectual property, open standards and freedom of expression on the agenda of the second meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil next autumn. At a 13 February IGF stocktaking meeting in Geneva, several of the coalitions formed at the first IGF (in Athens in October-November ...- View all entries under Media Coverage