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Scandle at WIPO
Friday 29 May 2009
Right now, in Geneva, at the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization, history is being made. For the first time in WIPO history, the body that creates the world’s copyright treaties is attempting to write a copyright treaty dedicated to protecting the interests of copyright users, not just copyright owners.
At issue is a treaty to protect the rights of blind people and people with other disabilities that affect reading (people with dyslexia, people who are paralyzed or lack arms or (...)
At issue is a treaty to protect the rights of blind people and people with other disabilities that affect reading (people with dyslexia, people who are paralyzed or lack arms or (...)
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por Pedro de Paranaguá Moniz
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Limitations and exceptions to copyrights
Thursday 28 May 2009
Please find bellow the statement delivered yesterday from the floor at the 18th session of the Standing Committee on Copyrights and Related Rights (SCCR) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the UN agency specialised in intellectual property.
Statement by the Centre for Technology and Society at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) School of Law in Rio de Janeiro – Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), WIPO
Geneva, 25-29 May 2009
Dear Mister Chairman, (...)
Statement by the Centre for Technology and Society at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) School of Law in Rio de Janeiro – Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), WIPO
Geneva, 25-29 May 2009
Dear Mister Chairman, (...)
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por Pedro de Paranaguá Moniz
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Geneva 27 April - 01 May 2009
Monday 27 April 2009
Today began the third session of the Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) of the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
The meeting is taking place from 27 April to 1 May 2009.
For real time updates on the discussions, access the Twitter @pedroparanagua, both in English and Portuguese.
The meeting is taking place from 27 April to 1 May 2009.
For real time updates on the discussions, access the Twitter @pedroparanagua, both in English and Portuguese.
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por Pedro de Paranaguá Moniz
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Friday 20 March 2009
Dear Sound Copyright petitioner, Amid intense lobbying in the European Parliament next Monday’s vote on the proposal to extend the term of copyright has been struck off in a shock move. Following a meeting of the presidents of the political groups in the European Parliament on Tuesday, and with controversy and a lack of consensus surrounding the proposal, MEPs have delayed voting till the end of April - just before this summer’s European elections. A trialogue discussion between the (...)
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por Koichi Kameda
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Wednesday 4 March 2009
Source: SciDevNet-
To prevent foreign companies from patenting indigenous medicine, the Indian government has made 200,000 traditional medicines "public property" — available for anyone to use but no one to sell as a brand.
Indian authorities have become concerned about the growing practice of foreign companies patenting medicinal plants and other components of traditional medicine systems. Five thousand patents for traditional medicines have been issued in global trademark offices, 2,000 of (...)
To prevent foreign companies from patenting indigenous medicine, the Indian government has made 200,000 traditional medicines "public property" — available for anyone to use but no one to sell as a brand.
Indian authorities have become concerned about the growing practice of foreign companies patenting medicinal plants and other components of traditional medicine systems. Five thousand patents for traditional medicines have been issued in global trademark offices, 2,000 of (...)
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por Koichi Kameda
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Wednesday 4 March 2009
Source: SciDevNet-
Patents on scientific knowledge may not be as useful — or valuable — as many claim them to be.
The speed of the global economic collapse is provoking a widespread — many would say belated — realisation that many of the beliefs underlying economic expansion over the past 20 years need close questioning, particularly those involving the relationship between the state and the market.
But so far the need to reassess the value of protecting intellectual property, and in (...)
Patents on scientific knowledge may not be as useful — or valuable — as many claim them to be.
The speed of the global economic collapse is provoking a widespread — many would say belated — realisation that many of the beliefs underlying economic expansion over the past 20 years need close questioning, particularly those involving the relationship between the state and the market.
But so far the need to reassess the value of protecting intellectual property, and in (...)
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por Koichi Kameda
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51 comments
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LAN-Houses, a major component in digital inclusion in the country, have received a special category on the part of the Federal Government that will make it easier for them to become legal, reducing "informality"
Friday 20 February 2009
A great achievement has been accomplished by the Open Business project in Brazil. The project, supported by IDRC (International Development Research Center), negotiated an important change on the part of the Brazilian Classification of Economic Activities (referred to by the acronym CNAE in Brazil). This major change will make it easier the formalization of the Brazilian so-called "LAN-Houses" (that is name used in Brazil to define "Local Area Network-Houses", i.e., micro and small business (...)
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por Paula Martini
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Friday 13 February 2009
Source: BBC NEWS-
By Gary Duffy
BBC Brazil correspondent
In the early hours of the morning in the Amazonian city of Belem, Brazil a dockside warehouse is shaking to the sound of tecnobrega.
In this humid atmosphere, the beer is flowing and thousands of young people are dancing and enjoying what has become a music phenomenon among some of the poorest districts of the city.
Tecnobrega is a mix of electronic beats of music from the 1980s and catchy "brega" which essentially means cheesy or (...)
By Gary Duffy
BBC Brazil correspondent
In the early hours of the morning in the Amazonian city of Belem, Brazil a dockside warehouse is shaking to the sound of tecnobrega.
In this humid atmosphere, the beer is flowing and thousands of young people are dancing and enjoying what has become a music phenomenon among some of the poorest districts of the city.
Tecnobrega is a mix of electronic beats of music from the 1980s and catchy "brega" which essentially means cheesy or (...)
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por Koichi Kameda
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109 comments
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Center for Technology and Society cited on IP-Watch article
Monday 9 February 2009
By Dugie Standeford for Intellectual Property Watch
Copyright has taken centre stage again this year as the battle over internet service provider (ISP) responsibility for digital piracy intensifies and spreads around the world.
2009 will also feature growing global pressure for a more harmonised system of copyright limitations and exceptions, and continuing controversy over the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
Intermediary Liability
This year is crucial for the music (...)
Copyright has taken centre stage again this year as the battle over internet service provider (ISP) responsibility for digital piracy intensifies and spreads around the world.
2009 will also feature growing global pressure for a more harmonised system of copyright limitations and exceptions, and continuing controversy over the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
Intermediary Liability
This year is crucial for the music (...)
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por Paula Martini
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Wednesday 4 February 2009
By William New, Feb 3, 2009
The ambassadors to the World Trade Organization from Brazil and India on Tuesday charged that other WTO members had no grounds to block legitimate shipping of generic medicines on the basis of potential intellectual property rights conflicts in the transit country and said recent cases of doing so in the Netherlands call into question WTO rules. The concern was supported by 17 other developing country governments at Tuesday’s WTO General Council meeting. (...)
The ambassadors to the World Trade Organization from Brazil and India on Tuesday charged that other WTO members had no grounds to block legitimate shipping of generic medicines on the basis of potential intellectual property rights conflicts in the transit country and said recent cases of doing so in the Netherlands call into question WTO rules. The concern was supported by 17 other developing country governments at Tuesday’s WTO General Council meeting. (...)
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por Paula Martini
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Barack Obama and CC
Tuesday 20 January 2009
Today, January 20, 2009, a few minutes ago in Washington, DC, the 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama, sworn in.
And we may already see at the White House’s website a copyright notice stating that "Pursuant to federal law, government-produced materials appearing on this site are not copyright protected. The United States Government may receive and hold copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise.
Except where otherwise noted, (...)
And we may already see at the White House’s website a copyright notice stating that "Pursuant to federal law, government-produced materials appearing on this site are not copyright protected. The United States Government may receive and hold copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise.
Except where otherwise noted, (...)
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por Pedro de Paranaguá Moniz
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Wednesday 3 December 2008
During the week of a worldwide celebrated World AIDS Day, REBRIP’s Work Group in Intellectual Property (GTPI), which is currently coordinated by the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA), launched a national campaign on the impacts of the patent system’s abuses on the access to essential medicines, including the ones necessary for treating HIV/Aids.
Posts printed by the group can be found in various places such as cinemas, bars, bookstores and restaurants, in four Brazilian (...)
Posts printed by the group can be found in various places such as cinemas, bars, bookstores and restaurants, in four Brazilian (...)
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por Koichi Kameda
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Wednesday 3 December 2008
Panel held at the Brazilian Nacional Copyright Forum – Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
The International Seminar on Copyright , organized by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture (MinC) in conjunction with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), took place from the 26th to 28th of November in Ceará. The seminar was part of the National Copyright Forum, an initiative carried out by MinC since December 2007 aiming at rethinking copyright in Brazil, in order to promote a greater balance between (...)
The International Seminar on Copyright , organized by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture (MinC) in conjunction with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), took place from the 26th to 28th of November in Ceará. The seminar was part of the National Copyright Forum, an initiative carried out by MinC since December 2007 aiming at rethinking copyright in Brazil, in order to promote a greater balance between (...)
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por Arthur Protasio
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Tuesday 14 October 2008
In celebration of Open Access Day, October 14, 2008, the Information Society Project at Yale Law School (Yale ISP) will launch a new book, Access to Knowledge in Brazil: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development. The volume is the first in a new series of research on access to knowledge published by the Yale ISP.
The book features four chapters on current issues related to intellectual property, innovation and development policy in Brazil. Featured topics include: (...)
The book features four chapters on current issues related to intellectual property, innovation and development policy in Brazil. Featured topics include: (...)
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por Arthur Protasio
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65 comments
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Monday 13 October 2008
Originally posted in OpenSpectrum Japan- Japanese government seems to be changing its industry-oriented policy toward consumers.
Last week the Council of Information and Communication decided to scrap the B-CAS, the notorious conditional access system for free broadcasting (link in Japanese). Due to this change, "Dubbing Ten", which forbids copying the programs of digital broadcasting more than ten times, would be abolished, because it is enforced by the encryption of B-CAS. It might be (...)
Last week the Council of Information and Communication decided to scrap the B-CAS, the notorious conditional access system for free broadcasting (link in Japanese). Due to this change, "Dubbing Ten", which forbids copying the programs of digital broadcasting more than ten times, would be abolished, because it is enforced by the encryption of B-CAS. It might be (...)
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por Koichi Kameda
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119 comments
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