Intellectual Property
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- Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute
- Aims to identify patterns in recent NGO activity at CBD COP, FAO, WHO, WIPO, WTO. Focuses on public health and access to essential medicines, and agriculture, genetic resources. and traditional knowledge.
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- Union for the Public Domain
- Non-profit citizens group, seeking to protect and enhance the public domain in matters concerning intellectual property.
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- Union for the Public Domain (UPD)
- A non-profit citizens group with a mission to protect and enhance the public domain in matters concerning intellectual property. A membership organization acting as an independent voice on intellectual property issues.
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- Register: Linux Update Withholds Security Information on DMCA Terror
- "Citing a controversial U.S. copyright law, a top Linux developer announced this week that Americans would not be given details about the security fixes in an update to the open source operating system, a first for a software development community that prides itself on transparency." By Kevin Poulsen.
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- Red Hat Fights the DMCA
- "Red Hat has struck a small blow against the DMCA, by publishing a security patch which can only be explained fully to people who are not within US jurisdiction." By John Lettice. [Register USA] (October 16, 2002)
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- The Register - Tech Giants Back Fair Use Bills
- The IT industry's giants including Intel rally behind a bill announced by Congressman Rick Boucher to protect Fair Use in the wake of the DMCA. (October 03, 2002)
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- The Register - Congress Reps Launch Fightback on DRM Rights Erosion
- Two US Congress representatives are this week raising the standard of rebellion against the entertainment business' use of Digital Rights Management and the DMCA to erode consumer rights. (October 03, 2002)
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- FIPR - Policy Work
- The Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) is an independent organisation researching the effects of new legislation and lobbying UK Government parties for the provision of academic and personal freedom.
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- See the New Copyright Law, and Watch It Suck As Much As the Largest Hoover Ever Made
- Chris Lightfoot's correspondence with Anne Campbell, Labour MP for Cambridge, over his concerns about the EUCD.
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- Patent Office swamped by EU Copyright Directive response
- The Patent Office will miss the EUCD deadline of 22 December due to extensive feedback on the draft UK proposal. Article by Drew Cullen [Register]. (November 20, 2002)
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- Does New Europe Law Mean Slammer for DRM Crackers?
- Article by John Leyden [Register] (May 13, 2002)
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- Alan Cox Attacks the European DMCA
- Article covering Alan Cox's speech at the Campaign for Digital Rights meeting [Register] (April 30, 2002)
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- UK Campaigners Call for Anti 'Anti-rip' CD Day of Action
- "Campaigners will take to the streets of Britain this Saturday (6 October) in a bid to raise public awareness of the music industry's attempts to prevent listeners from copying CDs or playing discs on PCs." By Tony Smith. [Register] (October 04, 2001)
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- File-Sharing Getting Bad Rap?
- "A controversial new study by economists at Harvard and the University of North Carolina has found that file-sharing is not the cause of declining CD sales." [Rolling Stone] (April 05, 2004)