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- Homeland Security Decides If It Just Keeps Interchanging Counterfeiting With Copyright Infringement, Perhaps No One Will Notice
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We already wrote about the recent Congressional committee hearings on intellectual property enforcement, where IP Czar Victoria Espinel blamed China. However, there were other speakers there as well, and perhaps the most interesting was from John ...
feed item - whytewolf - 07/22/2010 - 15:27 - 0 comments
- Looking At The Details Of The Released Leaked ACTA Draft
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It's been a few days now since the latest draft of ACTA leaked , and people are looking through it in detail. Michael Geist has a very detailed take on how the stumbling blocks appear to be a fight between the US and EU negotiators over how broad ...
feed item - whytewolf - 07/16/2010 - 15:43 - 0 comments
- Revolving Door: Administration's ACTA Defender Jumps Ship To US Chamber Of Commerce
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You may remember Steven Tepp, from the US Copyright Office, who just recently defended the administration's position on ACTA by mocking the very legitimate concerns of many people about ACTA's exporting of stronger copyright laws, without any ...
feed item - whytewolf - 07/07/2010 - 21:32 - 0 comments
- India Gearing Up To Fight ACTA; Seeking Other, Like-Minded, Countries
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While the various governments supporting ACTA continue to insist there's nothing wrong with it , clearly more and more people are realizing that there are some massive problems with it, and we're not talking about the usual group of activists. It seems ...
feed item - whytewolf - 06/01/2010 - 15:16 - 0 comments
- Confusion Over Liability Extends To The Real World, Rather Than Just Online
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Reader jjmsan alerts us to a story that shows that various luxury brands suing service providers rather than those actually responsible doesn't just happen online, but can happen offline as well. Apparently, luxury goods maker Coach is suing the ...
feed item - whytewolf - 05/26/2010 - 00:55 - 0 comments
- GAO Concludes Piracy Stats Are Usually Junk, File Sharing Can Help Sales
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For many years we've explored how entertainment and software industry piracy statistics are very reliable -- at least in terms of being consistently and notoriously wrong on an annual basis. Each year companies (especially the BSA) like to throw out ...
feed item - whytewolf - 04/13/2010 - 18:33 - 0 comments
- USTR Insists Gov't Isn't Keeping ACTA Secret
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Stan McCoy, the assistant US trade rep, is apparently the new point man from the USTR office on jaw-dropping political doublespeak about ACTA. You may recall a few days back when McCoy insisted that there was a lot of misrepresentations about ACTA , ...
feed item - whytewolf - 02/05/2010 - 12:20 - 0 comments
- USTR: A Lot Of Misperception Over ACTA, But We Won't Clear It Up Or Anything
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Via Michael Geist , we're pointed to a short interview with a representative from the US Trade Reps office, where the issue over ACTA concerns is raised, and the response is almost comically ridiculous. Stan McCoy, the assistant US Trade Representative ...
feed item - whytewolf - 02/03/2010 - 06:49 - 0 comments
- Seriously: Where Is The Link Between Copyright Infringement And Terrorism/Organized Crime
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Over the past few years, the entertainment industry has been pushing hard on the claim that copyright infringement and organized crime (or terrorism) are somehow connected . It's a regular talking point and is often brought up in discussions about ...
feed item - whytewolf - 01/29/2010 - 20:39 - 0 comments
- Brits: write to your MP, get transparency on secret copyright treaty!
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UK MP Don Foster has presented an Early Day Motion demanding that the UK government disclose the substance of the secret copyright treaty negotiations in Guadalajara, Mexico. Write to your MP and ask that s/he support "Early Day Motion 700." Let's drag ...
feed item - whytewolf - 01/26/2010 - 23:03 - 0 comments
