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EU intellectual property rights (IPR) agenda
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The high-running Twitter discussion about #ACTA, the Avaaz online petition for rejection of the Anti-Counterfeiting (and much more) Trade Agreement and the wave of demonstrations all over Europe merit some facts and discussion about the IPR agenda of...
ACTA and EU IPR enforcement agenda
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It is not only a question about what the Anti-Counterfeiting (and much more) Trade Agreement ACTA contains or not, because it is a part of an intellectual property enforcement agenda driven by the European Commission. Long before popular discontent...
So, confidentially, what DO you think of WIPO?
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A rare first: the IPKat keeps his comments on WIPO to himself You may have been waiting for years to tell the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) what you think of it. If so, your chance has come. WIPO informs...
Mitt tal på ACTA-demonstrationen i Stockholm
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Vi var ungefär 1000 personer som trotsade kylan och demonstrerade mot ACTA i Stockholm igår lördag, enligt polisens uppskattning. Jag talade, och Urban Sundström, som brukar vara flitig och uppskattad gäst i kommentarsfälten på många bloggar,...
ACTA-demonstrationen i Stockholm — bilder
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Idag hade vi en mycket lyckad demonstration mot ACTA-avtalet på Sergels torg i Stockholm. Här är några bilder fria för publicering (Creative Commons CC0). Andra som skriver om demonstrationerna: Expressen, Aftonbladet, DN, SvD, GP, Nyheter24, SV...
ACTA demonstrations today in Sweden
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From the Stopp ACTA wiki main page you can proceed to the Google protest map or to demonstrations in 19 European countries. The main anti-ACTA action day is 11 February 2012, but today I visit Sweden, where four protests have made it to the pages. In...
Copyright wars, Assange Trial, Facebook IPO, Pirate Bay and more… A Cyberculture roundup
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Dear Hollywood: An Open Letter to the Hardworking Men and Women in the Entertainment Industries from EFF.org Updates by parker Dear Hollywood, You don’t need us to tell you that your position on anti-”piracy” laws has been unpopular rec...
Piercing ACTA armour
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We have looked at the growing protests online and on the ground against the Anti-Counterfeiting (and much more) Trade Agreement ACTA. The anti-ACTA feelings run high, but there is also a need for deliberation on the official policies of ever more dr...
European Parliament makes strong progress on outlawing counterfeiting
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The Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) between the European Union, Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerlandand the USA has been the focus of much attention over the past few weeks. I have recei...
Growing ACTA protest online and on the ground
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By now, more than 1.526 million netizens have signed the Avaaz.org petition for the European Parliament to reject #ACTA. The call is also directed at the parliaments in the EU member states, where most of the governments are preparing ratification. P...
Megaupload, FBI, anonymous: internet battle over copyright
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After a vast legal process in the American courts, the internet platform megaupload was closed down. Copyright struggle or third world war? One Frenchie looks for a more differentiated approach...
De Gucht merits ACTA rejection
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We learn, although not from the website of Karel De Gucht, but from La Quadrature du Net, that the EU trade commissioner has written a letter to the members of the Committee on International Trade (INTA) in the European Parliament, accusing civil soc...
ACTA text in 22 languages - Soon a million protesting online
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The Anti-Counterfeiting (and much else) Trade Agreement #ACTA is a hot subject on Twitter and the online public sphere in general. Different campaigns aim at defeating the treaty. A short while ago @Avaaz had reached 963,079 online signatures on a gl...
Information society, ACTA and copyright legislation
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Here they are, in all their glory, the 22 language versions of ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. But, as we soon find out, the European Union and its Member States, Australia, Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the United Mexican Stat...
ACTA Stipulates Increased Damages For File Sharing
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”ACTA changes nothing” has become the favorite mantra of those who want to push the agreement through at any cost. This in itself is of course a strong signal that there is something very suspect about the whole issue. If ACTA really chan...
ACTA: ”Nu handlar det om att få ett nej i EU-parlamentet”
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Sveriges Radios ”Alltid Nyheter” hade flera inslag om ACTA igår. Först intervjuade de Stefan Johansson, som är tjänstemannen på Justitiedepartementet som driver på för att få igenom ACTA, och därefter fick Henrik Alexandersson oc...
Eurosphere roundup: ACTA, Davos, Bloggingportal.eu 3 years old
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Booklet: Why You Should Care About ACTA 14 November, 2011 » Campaigns | Intellectual Property Enforcement The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a plurilateral agreement which proposes international standards for enforcement of intel...
DN: Sverige skrev under Acta-avtalet
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DN skriver: EU och 22 av medlemsländerna skrev på torsdagen under det omdiskuterade Acta-avtalet vid en ceremoni i Japan. ”Sverige har mörkat det här”, anser Christian Engström, piratpartist i EU-parlamentet. Läs mer hos DN...
ACTA signatures and content
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan has published a note on the signing of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, Australia, Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the United Mexican States, the...
A communication disaster called ACTA
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During the negotiations of ACTA the participating states did their best to undermine public trust by secrecy and obstinate refusal to publish various documents (Techdirt). When the first batch of countries signed ACTA in October 2011, the EU Commissi...
ACTA: Nu har det blivit åka av
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Det händer osannolikt mycket runt ACTA just nu. Jag försöker samla lite länkar. Stora demonstrationer i Polen mot ACTA. Nyheter24: Kravaller i Polen – men i Sverige är det locket på BBC: Thousands march in Poland over Acta internet treaty...
Poland Signs Copyright Treaty That Drew Protests
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Poland signed an international copyright agreement that has sparked days of protests by Internet users who fear it will lead to online censorship.
Europe’s SOPA?
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The European Parliament’s website has been shut down by hackers today, allegedly in a denial-of-service attack from Anonymous in protest of imminent anti-piracy legislation restricting internet freedom. But as the IT folks in parliament scramble to...
'Mein Kampf' copyright dispute - "foggy" news
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The next chapter in the "Mein Kampf" copyright dispute between a British publisher and the Bavarian government (see the earlier IPKat post here):German news media websites report (also here, here) that the Regional Court Munich on 25 January 2012 blo...
Polish Minister Telling Lies to Get ACTA Signed
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Poland will sign ACTA despite massive protests, Global Voices Online reports, citing Polish Minister of Administration and Digitisation Michal Boni. Unfortunately, it appears that the Polish minister does not shy away from telling his citizens blatan...
Tusk Attacks his Base (and then some!)
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Donald Tusk has managed to do something truly amazing. He has riled his own political base and brought them out onto the streets to demonstrate with his opponents. He has managed to cause such social anger over his decision to sign the Anti-Counterfe...
The Polish government stubbornly insists on ACTA
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The Polish government stubbornly insists on ACTA. The Prime Minister has already tasted strong words during the football war, smart drugs war, etc., and he wants to play in a similar style in the case of ACTA. Each day brings a new embarrassment. Tod...
Congress 1, Public 0 - the U.S. Supreme Court's Big Decision in Golan v. Holder
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The Public Domain in the United States just got smaller.In this Kat’s opinion, SCOTUS (The Supreme Court of the United States) picked quite an interesting time to release its opinion in Golan v. Holder, (10-545, January 18, 2012), which upholds Con...
When reporting "trumps" copyright: the sad case of Declan Hainey
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Declan Hainey IP cases from Scotland are none too common and, when they do come, they require a good degree of guidance and indeed translation from someone proficient in Scottish law. Fortunately for the IPKat, guidance came in the form of a note fro...
ACTA in European Parliament committees: Legal Affairs (JURI)
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After the roundup of ACTA blog posts in Finnish, Swedish or English on Grahnlaw Suomi Finland, IPR trade protection: ACTA controversy, I have published two recent updates about the agreement in the European Union: Grahnlaw (EN): ACTA update (in par...
Online pirates understand the market better than their legal rivals. The challenge for TV companies is to catch up
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I’d heard about it even before I arrived at university. It was a campus legend; a system that allowed you to watch any television programme whenever you wanted, with just the click of a button. All you needed was a connection to the campus computer...
ACTA in European Parliament committees: International Trade and Development
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Yesterday I offered some information about the state of ACTA in the institutions of the European Union: ACTA update (in part). Now for some complementary information. INTA The Committee on International Trade (INTA) is the responsible committee in t...
ACTA update (in part)
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In October 2011 I wrote a blog post Greens challenge ACTA legality. The two proposals from the Commission (DG Trade) had been published in June. They are: Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the signing, on behalf of the European Union of the Anti-Co...
hell yeah! SOPA is dead!
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Senator Reid: PIPA Vote Postponed from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick What Megaupload Teaches Us About the Cloud, SOPA and Backups from Mashable! by Christina Warren Who Did the Most to Bury SOPA? [POLL] from Mashable! by Chris Taylor The Week That...
Länk till Kopimistisk skapelseberättelse
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I en krönika på DN kultur skriver Fredrik Strage om den kopimistiska skapelseberättelsen. Tyvärr går det inte att kommentera på DN utan att samtidigt ge DN rätten att ta över ens Facebook-konto (ja, på riktigt kommer det upp en ruta som frå...
Länkar om EU:s svar på SOPA/PIPA
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Igår var delar av internet, bland annat Wikipedia, nedsläckta i protest mot det amerikanska lagförslaget SOPA/PIPA, som syftar till att ge upphovsrättsindustrin rätt att stänga ner eller blockera internetsajter som de anser inkräktar på deras...
SOPA, PIPA and more or less globalisation?
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In the world of the near future, the idea you express, the song you sing, the story you tell, etc has to be your own or you pay to use it. Why? Read below! Here is a selection of the thoughts I expressed on the subject during many Twitter debates an...
VIDEO: Internet 'blackout' over US piracy bills
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FSN New York correspondent Nathan King was live from New York to discuss the SOPA and PIPA legislation controversy which has led to several websites, including Wikipedia, blocking access to content.
Internet Blackout all over. Netizens vs. SOPA/PIPA bill gangs. A roundup
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Internet Blackout: SOPA, Reddit, and Networked (Political) Publics This wednesday, Wikipedia, Reddit, and a range of other high profile on-line sites will go black in protest of SOPA and PIPA, legislation currently being considered by the U.S. Congre...
Andrew Lih’s piece on “Wikipedia Blackout to protest SOPA (Jan 18, 2012)”
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[View the story "Wikipedia Blackout to protest SOPA (Jan 18, 2012)" on Storify] Related posts: Towards SOPA vote: Wikipedia Mulls Total Blackout… a cyberculture roundup… an anti-SOPA imagery gallery in a Pinterest board “Top 10 Most...
Stop SOPA - Join the #Blackout - Join the #Sopastrike
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PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. The congress of the United States is about to vote on two pieces of legislation that could fundamentally change the internet as we know it, with numerous ramificatio...
Hax i Expressen: ”Oroväckande ny censurlag”
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Henrik Alexandersson (Hax) som arbetar med mig för Piratpartiet i EU-parlamentet, varnar i Expressen för att EU är på väg mot en egen version av USA:s kritiserade antipiratlag Sopa. Läs mer hos Expressen...
Pirate Party Platform for the 2009 EU Elections
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Before the EU elections in 2009, we gathered representatives from an number of European Pirate Parties in Uppsala in Sweden, to formulate a basic common platform. In Sweden, we called this common platform Uppsaladeklarationen, and it served as the ba...
Ja visst gör det ont för kultursektorn
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Karin Boye dog 1941, vilket är 70 år sedan. Från och med den 1 januari 2012 får hennes verk spridas fritt. Nu har upphovsrätten på allt hon skrev äntligen gått ut, och hennes lyrik och prosa tar sin rättmätiga plats i det gemensamma kultura...
