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Information Today July 15, 2014 Barbie E. Keiser |
WIPO Considers Changes to Broadcasting Copyrights Recently the World Intellectual Property Organization Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights met in order to discuss its Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations, which could be enforced by 2015. |
InternetNews October 11, 2010 |
Final ACTA Draft Spares Groups' Worst Fears After several years of informal talks and top-secret, closed-door negotiations, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement appears to be in the home stretch. |
InternetNews April 14, 2006 David Miller |
Report Details DMCA Misuses A new report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation takes aim at the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a controversial law enacted seven years ago to protect intellectual property in the digital age. |
New Architect September 2002 Bret A. Fausett |
The Hague Treaty Adoption National boundaries will no longer be a practical defense to civil liability. This all makes wonderful sense for international business-to-business transactions. But the participants in the process of the Hague convention treaty didn't think too much about the Internet. |
Reason July 2001 Mike Godwin |
Copywrong Why the Digital Millennium Copyright Act hurts the public interest... |
InternetNews January 26, 2010 |
Groups Call for Counterfeit Agreement Openness Criticism mounts as negotiations press forward in landmark international IP agreement. |
InternetNews November 11, 2005 Roy Mark |
Public Knowledge Pans AG's Copyright Proposal Digital rights group Public Knowledge picks apart legislation that puts copyright theft in criminal code. |
InternetNews November 10, 2005 Roy Mark |
Attorney General Seeking Tougher IP Laws Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales proposed new legislation today that would strengthen penalties for copyright infringement, expand intellectual property protection and add critical enforcement tools. |
InternetNews April 6, 2006 Roy Mark |
China, Russia Top International Piracy List China and Russia's "lack of political will" put the two countries at the top of a congressional group's 2006 International Piracy Watch List. |
Home Theater October 14, 2008 |
Another Bad Copyright Law Passes The newly signed Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act escalates penalties for copyright infringement. |
Entrepreneur June 2006 Jane Easter Bahls |
Hitting Hard Piracy laws just got tougher. |
Information Today December 31, 2007 George H. Pike |
Congress Proposes to Enhance IP Enforcement and Penalties The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act, H.R. 4279, proposes a number of steps to strengthen the enforcement of copyright, trademark, and patent laws and to increase criminal and civil penalties for copyright infringement. |
InternetNews July 20, 2009 |
Music, Software Heads Stump for Tougher IP Laws New economic study highlights important role of industries like software and music and calls attention to rising threat from piracy. |
CIO February 15, 2002 Bill Wall |
An Imperfect Cybercrime Treaty The Council of Europe approved the 27th draft of the Convention on Cybercrime, the first international treaty on crime in cyberspace. This may help in prosecuting hackers, but there are some issues that cause concern. |
PC World January 14, 2003 Malaika Costello-Dougherty |
A Truce Over Copy Controls? Hollywood, tech industries agree to fight piracy and legislation, but support technical restrictions. |
Information Today June 2009 K. Matthew Dames |
Intellectual Property: Why the Frame of `Piracy' Matters What does piracy really mean? The term's definition and history are important along with the reasons why its continued misrepresentation matters to the country's copyright policy. |
Information Today October 4, 2004 |
Weekly News Digest R.R. Bowker Acquires Syndetic Solutions... Library Groups Endorse Intellectual Property Declaration... Swets Launches SwetsWise Linker... |
InternetNews October 1, 2010 |
EFF Claims Victory in Delay of Senate IP Bill The Electronic Frontier Foundation warned that the legislation designed to combat piracy will inevitably take down lawful content. |
Information Today November 14, 2011 |
IFLA Launches New Webpages on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions Copyright exceptions enable libraries to preserve and make available works. In many countries they have been established in the print era and not been updated to meet the needs of the digital age. |
InternetNews August 25, 2009 |
UK Mulls Cutting File Sharers' Internet Service Government calling for comment on proposal for more aggressive response to digital piracy. |
CIO July 1, 2005 Elana Varon |
$33 Billion-Gone! 35% of all software installed on the world's personal computers is pirated, according to a global study. |
InternetNews December 8, 2005 Roy Mark |
Software Industry Shifts Piracy Strategy The U.S. strategy for its war on global software piracy is shifting from focusing on the financial damage of intellectual property theft to the economic benefits of copyright protection. |
Salon.com July 16, 2001 Alan Docherty |
Why can't Johnny respect copyrights? In Britain, elementary-school classrooms prepare to preach reverence for intellectual property -- and to denounce the evils of file-sharing... |
Geotimes February 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Kyoto Ratified After a decade of negotiations, the Kyoto global climate change treaty is set to go into effect Feb. 16, but may remain relatively ineffectual on a global scale. |
Searcher September 2012 Peter B. Hirtle |
Feature: When is 1923 Going to Arrive and Other Complications of the u.s. Public Domain The public domain has always existed, but the rise of digital and networked technologies has made it particularly important. Our copyright laws represent an agreement among powerful publishing and media interests that is intended to work for their mutual benefit. |
Information Today November 19, 2009 |
International Activists Launch New Copyright Watch Website The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Electronic Information for Libraries, and other international copyright experts joined together to launch a public website created to centralize resources on national copyright laws. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2012 Lynn Claudy |
TV's Future: The Broadcast Empire Strikes Back New digital technologies could put over-the-air TV back in vogue in the United States and around the world. |