9 Jul, 2008: EFF Statement at WIPO Development Agenda Meeting in Geneva
"We support the call for WIPO to initiate discussions on how to facilitate access to knowledge and technology for developing countries and LDCs to foster creativity and innovation, and to facilitate IP-related aspects of ICT for growth and economic, social and cultural development. It is essential that national and international copyright and patent laws provide an environment that is ...

27 Nov, 2007: A new copyright law is coming to Canada
"Ottawa copyright circles are buzzing with hints that the government is preparing its new revised copyright bill, and will be tabling it soon, perhaps as early as next week. And the buzz is that the new law will basically be a copy of the controversial U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Much in the as-yet-unseen bill will not ...

13 Nov, 2007: Robin Gross’ Remarks at IGF 2007 on Internet Bill of Rights
Today I’d like to address a few issues that are specifically relevant to the positive development of the Internet and a healthy information society. 1. Freedom of Expression Rights. 2. Access to Knowledge Rights. 3. Communication Rights. 4. Privacy Rights and Data Protection. 5. Anonymity. 6. Excessive and ...

30 Aug, 2007: The Threat of Technological Protection Measures to a Development-Oriented Information Society (South Centre Policy Brief 9)
"This policy brief explains the current international legal framework for their protection and national experiences in their implementation. It highlights that developing countries should use the flexibilities available to narrowly implement anti-circumvention obligations in such a way that can reduce the threat they pose on access to knowledge. ..."

30 Aug, 2007: “Towards a Digital Agenda for Developing Countries” (SouthCentre)
"Digital and internet content presents developing countries with the opportunity to clearly determine in what way their development interests would be served by particular forms of copyright regimes. That opportunity converges with a moment in international policymaking that presents real scope for developing countries to implement development appropriate copyright regimes. Digital and internet content present real short term and ...

22 Jun, 2007: WIPO Broadcasting Treaty Talks Sent Back To Committee (IP Watch)
"World Intellectual Property Organization members on Friday recommended to move talks on a proposed broadcasters’ and cablecasters’ treaty back to committee level for further consideration, a day after rejecting a proposal to elevate the issue to formal treaty negotiations. The move could signify a shelving of the issue, some nine years after discussions first began. The issue of updating the ...

20 Jun, 2007: WIPO Side-Event Highlights Exceptions, Limitations In Broadcasting Treaty (IP Watch)
"n Concerns that a new treaty on broadcasting being discussed at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) this week will be unbalanced, providing extra protection rights for broadcasters and further limits to users, was the topic of an event alongside the negotiation. The impact on developing countries was of particular concern. ..."

19 Jun, 2007: Battle For A New WIPO Treaty On Broadcasting Begins In Earnest (IP-Watch)
"World Intellectual Property Organization members are engaged in a critical weeklong meeting that will determine the fate of a proposed WIPO treaty on broadcasters’ rights. At the end of a second slow day, it was unclear which way it will go, according to participants, but things are intensifying and WIPO is watching closely, they said. ..."

18 Jun, 2007: Of course it’s not against the piracy of broadcasts but to give brodcasters more rights
"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 ...

31 May, 2007: Recording Industry Ass. of America (RIAA) Voted Worst Company in America: Contact Information for 50 US Politicians Who Take Campaign Money From RIAA
"When you voted the RIAA the worst company in America you gave us an assignment. But how can we improve the customer service of a recording industry trade group? It's not an easy task. Couldn't you have voted for Home Depot? U-Haul? Anyway... One of the ways the RIAA operates is by donating money to politicians who then enact favorable ...

25 May, 2007: Helsinki Court Decision on “Effective” Protection of Content Scrambling System (CSS)
"... it has been reliably determined that once a Norwegian computer hacker succeeded in breaking the CSS protection for DVD discs in 1999, the situation from an end user’s viewpoint has changed so that similar circumvention software is available from the Internet in dozens, even free of charge. Some computer operating systems even have such a program pre-installed. From ...

25 May, 2007: Landmark Ruling: DVD-Unlocking Code Ruled Lawful in Europe
A Finnish Court has ruled that the Content Scrabling System (CSS) computer code, which unlocks DVD movies, is lawful in Europe. The decision was a first to interpret the legality of DVD decoding software under the 2001 European Copyright Directive. .... This ruling is good news for consumers and innovators who want to build interoperable tools ...

23 May, 2007: A2K@IGF Dynamic Coalition Statement at IGF Open Consultation
I speak on behalf of the A2K@IGF Dynamic Coalition, who’s purpose is to support and expand Access to Knowledge and promote freedom of expression in the realm of information and communication technology. Our coalition is particularly concerned with the impact that unbalanced intellectual property rights have on the Internet as a tool of free expression, innovation, education, and development. ...

18 May, 2007: 2007 Report: IP Justice on WIPO in Global Information Society Watch
I've written a chapter about the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in a new report entitled "Global Information Society Watch" published by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and (iTeM). Besides WIPO, the report includes a number ...

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 ...