The independent Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property released a new report on May 22, 2013 – “Key Findings: The annual losses are likely to be comparable to the current annual level of U.S. exports to Asia—over $300 billion. The exact figure is unknowable, but private and governmental studies tend to understate the… Continue Reading
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Digital by Default or by Detour?’ Assessing User Centric eGovernment performance in Europe
Digital by Default or by Detour? Assessing User Centric eGovernment performance in Europe – eGovernment Benchmark 2012: “Software is an essential tool of production in every sector of the modern economy. Enterprises of all sorts rely on it to design products, provide services, communicate with customers, and manage operations. But software contributes considerably more value to… Continue Reading
Competitive Advantage: The Economic Impact of Properly Licensed Software
Competitive Advantage: The Economic Impact of Properly Licensed Software – Global Study Conducted for BSA by INSEAD eLab: “Public Services Online: Digital by Default or by Detour? The 2012 eGovernment benchmark provide insight in three broad areas: A demand-side citizen view of public services – based on a representative sample, of 28,000 European internet-using citizens. Three life-events are assessed: starting a business,… Continue Reading
Paper – Internet Content Governance & Human Rights
Lucchi, Nicola, Internet Content Governance & Human Rights (May 1, 2013). Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law Vol. 16, No. 3 (2013). Available at SSRN “The paper examines how Internet content governance is posing regulatory issues directly related to the growing importance of an equitable access to digital information. In particular, it looks at… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – Copyrights, Fundamental Rights, and the Constitution
Via LLRX.com – Copyrights, Fundamental Rights, and the Constitution – The recent Supreme Court decision, Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, addresses fair use and the first sale doctrine, upon whose protection libraries, used-book dealers, technology companies, consumer-goods retailers, and museums have long relied. Professor Annmarie Bridy’s commentary focuses on the position that intellectual property… Continue Reading
Administration Strategy on Mitigating the Theft of U.S. Trade Secrets
Administration Strategy on Mitigating the Theft of U.S. Trade Secrets, February 2013: “The Administration will utilize trade policy tools to increase international enforcement against trade secret theft to minimize unfair competition against U.S. companies. The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) will make additional efforts to promote adequate and effective protection and enforcement of trade secrets. These… Continue Reading
Internet Domain Names: Background and Policy Issues
CRS – Internet Domain Names: Background and Policy Issues. Lennard G. Kruger, Specialist in Science and Technology Policy. January 3, 2013 “Navigating the Internet requires using addresses and corresponding names that identify the location of individual computers. The Domain Name System (DNS) is the distributed set of databases residing in computers around the world that… Continue Reading
Paper – An Information Approach to Trademarks
An Information Approach to Trademarks, Deven R. Desai. Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 100, No. 6, (2012) via SSRN “Trademark laws current conception of information and how trademarks enable information transmission is underdeveloped. It has led to a world where trademark law hinders rather than fosters the flow of information in markets. Instead of promoting information… Continue Reading
CBP Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights
What Every Member of the Trade Community Should Know About: CBP Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights – October 2012 “Stopping the flow of fake goods is a priority for the U.S. government. U.S Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a component of the Department of Homeland Security, has a multi-layered approach to IPR enforcement that includes… Continue Reading
UK Intellectual Property Office – Consultation on Modernising Copyright
“Implementing the Hargreaves review: In May 2011 Professor Ian Hargreaves published his Independent review of IP & growth. The 10 recommendations were broadly accepted in the Government’s response document issued on 3 August 2011. We will be using this page to provide updates, data, consultation information and progress reports on the work were doing and… Continue Reading
Patent Granted to License Textbook Content Shared on Web-based Systems
Ars Technica: “In a newly approved patent, an economics professor hopes to bring to the academic publishing world what seems to be forthcoming in the video game industrynew restrictions that would seemingly eliminate a secondary market for digital goods and prevent legal borrowing. Last week, the 2006 patent for a Web-based system and method to… Continue Reading
AAUP – Recommended Principles & Practices to Guide Academic-Industry Relationships
“The AAUP is pleased to issue this comprehensive draft report, Recommended Principles and Practices to Guide Academic-Industry Relationships, for public comment…This is one of the longest reports that the AAUP has ever produced. It deals with issues that are in the news every week and that are having a critical impact on higher education in… Continue Reading
