Copyright
Positive agenda on copyright, at the WIPO SCCR
Submitted by Manon Ress on 27. August 2011 - 9:03As part of the American University hosted Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the public Interest, I participated in a panel on the positive agenda for intellectual property. These are notes from my talk.
Presentation by Manon Anne Ress, Knowledge Ecology International
August 26, 2011, at American University in Washington, DC
KEI Statement in opposition to a WIPO Treaty for Broadcasting Organizations
Submitted by James Love on 21. June 2011 - 2:55KEI Statement on the Broadcast Treaty at WIPO SCCR 22
June 21, 2011
KEI opposes work at WIPO on a new treaty for broadcasting organizations.
To the extent that creative works are distributed through broadcasting networks, they are nearly always protected by copyright.
In the small cases where the broadcast involves material in the public domain, it would be a mistake to give the broadcaster an intellectual property right, merely for transmitting information.
Seven being considered for new US Register of Copyrights
Submitted by James Love on 27. February 2011 - 16:47Apparently it is now down to seven final candidates to be the new US Register of Copyrights. These include two employees of the Copyright Office (Carson and Kasunic), a lawyer in private practice (Fries), a full time professor (Brauneis), a professor/USPTO negotiator (Hughes), a trade negotiator (McCoy), and a representative of a trade association (Perlmutter). By gender, the finalists are two women, and five men.
They are, in alphabetical order:
Robert Brauneis
The final conclusions for WIPO SCCR 21
Submitted by James Love on 12. November 2010 - 18:03Sometime very early Saturday morning, SCCR 21 ended with these conclusions.
Access to Orphan Works, and ACTA provisions on damages
Submitted by James Love on 20. October 2010 - 16:26Access to Orphan Works, and ACTA provisions on damages
KEI Policy Brief 2010: 1
20 October 2010
Introduction
Copyright is a term that in the United States describes the laws that regulate the use and distribution of "original works of authorship." The types of activities and expressions protected by copyright have expanded over the years, particularly due to technology, but also due to the lobbying by various interested parties. The current systems of registration of copyrighted works in the United includes the following catagories:
The 1967 Stockholm Revision of the Berne Convention "PROTOCOL REGARDING DEVELOPING COUNTRIES"
Submitted by KEI Staff on 19. October 2010 - 7:17(This html text may contain from errors from an OCR scan. Official copies of the text and a meeting report are also attached at the end of this note. See also the timeline regarding the origins of the 1967 protocol.)
U.N.T.S. No. 11850, vol. 828, pp. 221-293
BERNE CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF LITERARY AND ARTISTIC WORKS OF SEPTEMBER 9, 1886,
COMPLETED AT PARIS ON MAY 4, 1896, REVISED AT BERLIN ON NOVEMBER 13, 1908,
COMPLETED AT BERNE ON MARCH 20, 1914, REVISED AT ROME ON JUNE 2, 1928,
REVISED AT BRUSSELS ON JUNE 26, 1948,
Berne Convention Appendix Regarding Special Provisions Regarding Developing Countries
Submitted by James Love on 18. October 2010 - 15:31Charles F. Johnson's Timeline of the Origins of the 1967 Stockholm Protocol for developing countries
Submitted by Anne Mira Guha on 18. October 2010 - 14:51(This timeline is part of a larger project at KEI regarding an evaluation of the 1971 Appendix to the Berne Convention on "SPECIAL PROVISIONS REGARDING DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.)
Stevie Wonder's speech to the WIPO General Assembly on Disabilities
A recording of Stevie Wonder's speech to the Assemblies of WIPO on 20 September 2010 is available here
New Stories
21 September 2010. Ian Crouch, The New Yorker. Stevie Wonder and Books for the Blind
Four Years of Struggles to Free the Law (CFP-95 presentation)
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