"Consumer Rights Under Fire: 321 Studios and the Demise of Fair Use" IP Justice Report March, 2004 Canadian P2P Decisions A series of decisions from 2003-4 that upheld consumers' rights to privacy and Fair Use in Canada. May 6, 2004. "Digital Copyright Question: Fair Use of Karaoke CDGs" IP Justice Response to US Legislation April [...]
News is listed in the order that it was posted, which may not be the order in which it was initially published. 11/5/2004 Updates New Chinese regulation to protect copyrights on networks 11/3/2004 Updates The German recording industry calls for stricter rules for personal copies 11/1/2004 Updates Canadian Court Rules Free Speech Trumps Broadcasting Rights [...]
News is listed in the order that it was posted, which may not be the order in which it was initially published. 11/5/2004 Updates Miami Trademarks "Gateway to the Americas" US Insists on FTAA Negotiations 11/3/2004 Updates FTAA Unable to Come Into Existence Before 2007 10/19/2004 Updates Trinidad Newspaper: Standing with Cuba, V'zuela Barbados Nation [...]
By Robin Gross - A new open-access online medical journal database teaches African doctors with no research budgets about new medicines and surgical techniques. Scientists are able to study the "greenhouse effect" because weather data is made freely available to the public over the Internet. Electronic databases have proliferated in recent years, creating new information products and services for the public. The availability of information databases fuels innovation by lowering the costs of research and development and spreading knowledge to new sectors. ...
Circumvention Prohibitions Reconsidered: Why America's Mistake is Europe's Future By Robin D. Gross, IP Justice I. US and EU Pressured to Outlaw Consumer Circumvention Today lawmakers all over the world are both dreaming of the opportunities and grappling with the challenges that digital technology creates for authors and distributors of intellectual property. At the same [...]
IP Justice Comments on ICANN WHOIS Preliminary Reports 5 July 2004 view as .doc view as .pdf ICANN Threatens Civil Rights of Website Owners: Intellectual Property Interests Govern Use of Personal Information July 5, 2004 Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Attention: Whois Task Force 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330 [...]
Remarks of Italian MEP Marco Cappato - EU Plenary Debate 9 March 2004 (Translation from Italian): - - - - - - - Mr. President, unlike President Imbeni, I have no reason to celebrate and rejoice with the procedure followed, because an early conciliation, as the President has defined it, is not a good procedure. [...]