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By Antonis Broumas An unexpected implication in the legislating procedure of the proposed EU Directive on criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPRED2) puts legitimate businesses under clear threat of criminal sanctions. A “mistake” that quietly emerged during the drafting of the consolidated text of the proposed Directive threatens to outlaw parallel imports in the EU, ...
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WIPO Copyright Committee: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back 'Broadcast Treaty Chair' Remains, Limitations and Exceptions to Copyright Considered (15 March 2008) The WIPO Copyright Committee (SCCR) met from 10-12 March 2008 in Geneva to debate the future work program for the committee after the Member States ...21 Feb, 2008: Buy Clarinex Without Prescription
Council of Europe takes step to create the Broadcast Treaty that WIPO Member States rejected in 2007. Interestingly, CoE calls the rejection of the treaty at WIPO as "deadlock" rather than admitting that the only ones who wanted the treaty were a handful of European broadcasters and the treaty was REJECTED, not deadlocked.22 Jun, 2007: Buy Stromectol Without Prescription
"Today member states of WIPO decided that there will be neither a diplomatic conference on the proposed Broadcast Treaty, nor any more Special Sessions of the Standing Committee on Copyrights and Related Rights (SCCR). Till the end the Chair Yukka Liedes and the WIPO Secretariat intensely tried to keep the process on a way, at last by proposing that ...21 Jun, 2007: Buy Sumenta Without Prescription
After two days of informal sessions the Special Session of the SCCR is still running. In these two days no progress was made. Today two new non-papers were published by the Chair reflecting the discussions and showing clearly that delegates are no way near a consensus. One produced after the morning session has now at least two alternatives for each ...18 Jun, 2007: Buy Super Active Ed Pack Without Prescription
"Comments on Day One of the 2nd Special Session of the WIPO SCCR on a Draft Broadcasting Treaty. So far the negotiations on a draft for a WIPO Broadcast Treaty seem to be stuck making it more and more unlikely that a consensus will be reached till the session will end tomorrow morning. But according to the WIPO General ...
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ICANN's Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) today sent a letter to the Judiciary Committee of the US House of Representatives to express concern over the harmful impact from proposed legislation in the US Congress, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). The House Judiciary Committee will likely vote on SOPA tomorrow, and if it ...24 Feb, 2011: Buy Female Pink Viagra Without Prescription
The Internet Governance Project has published a very important petition against a governmental power-grab over of the Internet's Domain Name System. Governments are pushing ICANN for a "veto" right to prevent any top-level domain "for any reason". Sign the petition to support multi-stakeholder bottom-up consensus policy at ICANN instead.6 Jul, 2008: Buy Neurontin Without Prescription
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"There has been wide coverage of ICANN’s decision this week to adopt a new process for creating new global Top Level Domains (gTLDs).... Civil libertarians supporting Susan Crawford’s line argue that if governments are able to pressure ICANN into prohibiting .jihad (which has perfectly non-violent meanings in Islam as well as the terrorist connotations it has recently acquired in the ...1 Jul, 2008: Buy Antabuse Without Prescription
Internet Technical Body an Authority on Morality? ICANN announced the "biggest extension of the DNS [domain name system] in 40 years" after its decision last week to finish implementation of a new policy for introducing new top-level domains (TLDs). According to the timeline presented at the ICANN meeting in Paris, new TLDs to compete against the existing .com, .biz ...12 Nov, 2007: Buy Invega Without Prescription
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 ...
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Today I write to express my personal disappointment with the way ICANN has mis-handled this request for special rights to prohibit the use of certain words in domain names which are desired by politically powerful, but ultimately arbitrary, interests. Unfortunately, this case represents another clear example of ICANN departing from its own established policies and stated principles of bottom-up ...14 Dec, 2011: Triamterene Online Without Prescription
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Forty-five civil society groups concerned about efforts to ratchet-up the enforcement of intellectual property rights beyond healthy levels sent a letter to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) this week to their express concern on WIPO's continued promotion of a "maximalist" agenda with respect to intellectual property rights. The civil society letter reminded WIPO that this approach undermine's development ...25 Nov, 2011: Torsemide Online Without Prescription
The European Union's highest court issued a key legal ruling overturning a Belgian law that would have required Internet service providers to monitor all Internet traffic passing through their systems with the goal of protecting copyright holders' rights. In a closely watched case, the European Court of Justice struck down a Belgian court ruling from 2007 that forced ISPs to ...27 Sep, 2011: Toradol Online Without Prescription
By Robin Gross (Published by APC) - ICANN occupies a unique role in that it manages a global public resource (the internet’s domain name addressing space), but it shares this responsibility between businesses, governments, and civil society participants from many nations. It represents a unique blend of “multi-stakeholderism” governance: the different parties that will be impacted participate in ...8 Jul, 2011: Toprol Xl Online Without Prescription
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Statement in public forum regarding ICANN Board response to "scorecard" of the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) on trademark protections for new generic top-level Internet domain names. The GAC is pressuring the ICANN Board to dramatically expand the rights of trademark owners after heavy lobbying by trademark industry of governmental representatives who participate at ICANN.11 Apr, 2011: T-ject 60 Online Without Prescription
IP Justice signed comments from a number of San Francisco civil liberties organizations concerned about the draconian new proposal to turn local SF arts organizations into surveillance mechanisms for law enforcement. This proposal harms civil liberties like free expression and privacy and it will harm the local arts communities who will be forced to spy on their patrons if ...31 Mar, 2011: Tizanidine Online Without Prescription
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A gathering of over 90 legal academics, practitioners, and public interest organizations from 6 continents met at American University Washington College of Law last week to draft an Urgent Communique concerning the public interest aspects of the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The international experts found that ACTA is a deeply flawed proposal created by a deeply flawed process ...- View all entries under Robin's Cyberlaw Remix