News release: “The National Music Publishers Association announced it has reached a resolution with YouTube in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed in 2007. As a result of this resolution, music publishers will have the opportunity to enter into a License Agreement with YouTube and receive royalties from YouTube for musical works in videos posted on… Continue Reading
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G8 Declaration – Renewed Commitment For Freedom and Democracy
G8 Summit of Deauville – May 26-27, 2011: “We discussed new issues such as the Internet which are essential to our societies, economies and growth. For citizens, the Internet is a unique information and education tool, and thus helps to promote freedom, democracy and human rights. The Internet facilitates new forms of business and promotes… Continue Reading
EU Commission sets out "blueprint" for Intellectual Property Rights to boost creativity and innovation
EUROPA press release: “Intellectual property rights (IPR), which comprise patents, trademarks, designs and geographical indications, as well as copyright (authors’ rights) and rights related to copyright (for performers, producers and broadcasters), have been around for centuries. Often, without our even realising, they affect our daily lives: they protect the technology we use (cars, mobile phones,… Continue Reading
Introducing the WebM Community Cross-License Initiative
News release: “It’s been almost a year since Mozilla, Opera, Xiph.Org, Matroska, Google and over 40 other partners launched the WebM Project with the goal of developing a world-class, open source media format for the web. The open development model has led to rapid quality improvements in WebM, and the format is now supported in… Continue Reading
Google Video Shows Use of Disk Crushers and Other Security Measures
Computerworld: ‘Google is shedding some of the secrecy around its data center practices, with a new video that shows extensive security measures and the destruction of old hard drives to prevent leakage of customer data. Google “rigorously tracks the location and status” of each hard drive, destroying failed hard drives with a multistep process before… Continue Reading
Rethinking Music: A Briefing Book
Rethinking Music: A Briefing Book Compiled and Presented By The Berkman Center for Internet & Society At Harvard University, April 2011. “The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is pleased to present this briefing book to participants in the Rethink Music conference. The book includes the Centers own framing paper, which introduces a number of… Continue Reading
Triangle Research Libraries Networks IP Rights Strategy for Digitization of Modern Manuscript Collections and Archival Record Groups
The Triangle Research Libraries Networks Intellectual Property Rights Strategy for Digitization of Modern Manuscript Collections and Archival Record Groups, January 2011 – Laura Clark Brown, Judy Ruttenberg, and Kevin L. Smith, J.D. “Curated online exhibits have dominated the manuscript and archival digitization projects of academic libraries. These exhibits typically present a small number of selected… Continue Reading
2010 U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Annual Report on Intellectual Property Enforcement
2010 U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Annual Report on Intellectual Property Enforcement, U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, February 2011 “Over the last six months, we have heard repeated concerns about enforcement of patents and trade secrets, particularly in China. This year, DOJ and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have increased their investigations and prosecutions… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com – The Risky Business of Information Sharing: Why You Need to Care About Copyright
The Risky Business of Information Sharing: Why You Need to Care About Copyright: Copyright is an essential tool in the spread of new ideas, and the workplace has become ground zero for infringement. Ask employees up and down the corporate hierarchy, and they’ll tell you that whisking information electronically to co-workers is integral to their… Continue Reading
FCC Grants Approval of Comcast-NBCU Transaction
News release: “Today, the Federal Communications Commission grantswith conditions and enforceable commitmentsapproval of the assignment and transfer of control of broadcast, satellite, and other radio licenses from General Electric Company (GE) to Comcast Corporation. The approval will allow GE and Comcast to create a joint venture involving NBC Universal, Inc. (NBCU) and Comcast. An Order… Continue Reading
Facilitating Access to Copyright Works for Visually Impaired Persons
Stakeholders’ Platform Launches Project to Facilitate Access by VIPs to Published Works: “An unprecedented initiative to facilitate access to published works by the visually impaired and the print disabled was announced on October 23, 2010, in New Delhi, India at the 5th meeting of WIPOs Stakeholders Platform. The Platform approved the launch on November 1,… Continue Reading
U.S., Participants Finalize Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Text
“Participants in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations announced today that they have finalized the text of the Agreement, after resolving the few issues that remained outstanding after the final round of negotiations in Tokyo…Participants in the negotiations include Australia, Canada, the European Union (EU) and its Member States, represented by the European Commission and… Continue Reading
