Intellectual Property
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- The Revolt of the Poor - The Demise of Intellectual Property?
- With the advent of new media, e-publishing, self-publishing, and differential patent enforcement and pricing - intellectual property rights may be in trouble.
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- The Campaign to Have Copyright Interests Trump Technology and Consumer Rights
- Speech by Gary Shapiro, President of the Consumer Electronics Association, to the Optical Storage Symposium. (September 17, 2002)
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- Buy DVDs and Games Abroad - and Break the Law
- "British consumers will be on the wrong side of the law for the first time if they buy overseas DVDs or computer games 'unauthorised' for the UK and play them on their PCs at home." By Drew Cullen. [Register] (January 24, 2002)
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- Reevaluating Copyright: The Public Must Prevail
- Open source pioneer Richard Stallman discusses some problems with copyright restrictions. (May 01, 1996)
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- Managing Rights Management
- Commentary by Robert Weber covering conditional, technical, and business aspects.
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- Wikipedia: Digital Rights Management
- Provides a definition and possible applications. Also covers opposing views.
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- ACM Queue - Understanding DRM
- David Sohn explains digital rights management (DRM), broadly defined as technical measures used to protect content in digital media devices and services. (November 01, 2007)
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- D-Lib Magazine
- Compilation of design and architecture by Renato Iannella. Also provides examples and practical uses. (June 01, 2001)
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- Andrew Odlyzko: Papers on Electronic Publishing
- A selection of papers on the future of electronic publication in the field of academic communication, its impact and consequences.
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- Create Change
- A resource for faculty and librarian action to reclaim scholarly communication. Main issues concern subscription prices for scholarly journals and help for journals willing to find publishing options better suited to their academic missions.
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- Declaration of San José - Towards the Virtual Health Library
- An initiative aiming to construct a digital medium 'as a unified response to our health situation, facilitating wide access to information for the permanent improvement of health of the people'. (March 24, 1998)
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- Blogging Biodiversity
- A useful personal weblog on international negotiations on biodiversity issues.
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- Commission on Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR)
- UK Government IPR Commission's website containing background, papers, conference reports and UK government response. Commission's Report: "Integrating IPRs and Development Policy" available in many languages.
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- International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
- UKabc portal on the IT PGRFA (International Seed Treaty) that governs the access, use, conservation and development of the genetic resources of food security crop and forage species. Treaty outlaws IPRs on selected PGRFA. Links to all official FAO, media and CSO resources on the Treaty.
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- Small-scale Producers' Intellectual Rights to Agricultural Biodiversity
- Introduction to the issues in a Kenyan context, with an emphasis on farmers, pastoralists and fisherfolk, and the need for protocols on intellectual property. Includes Via Campesina's statement on Farmers' Rights.
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- TRIPs, Biodiversity and Commonwealth Countries
- Discussion paper prepared for the Commonwealth Secretariat on capacity building priorities for the Review of TRIPs Article 27.3(b). Extensive links to related papers and sites.
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- WIPO: Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore
- World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) pages on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources with links to Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore. Includes coverage of the intergovernmental committee covering all three issues.
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- WorldTrade Organisation - TRIPs / Patents pages
- WTO's pages on the Agreement on Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property rights (TRIPs), highlighting the patents clauses which include genetic resources patents. Links to all other aspects of trade and intellectual property.
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- Porto Alegre Treaty to Share the Global Commons
- Full text and background of proposed treaty designed to ensure that governments and Indigenous Peoples, who are the caretakers of their part of the genetic commons, establish the appropriate statutory mechanisms needed to ensure both sovereignty and open access to the world's genetic diversity. (February 02, 2002)