PAIPO Phoenix
Since the publication of my post (PAIPO is dead. Long live PAIPO) last week, I have received the full text of the Ministerial Decisions passed at Brazzaville in November 2012 (AUMINST Dec. (V) (01)) from the AU. The relevant paragraph…
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Colombian Court Strikes FTA Copyright Bill: “Ley Lleras 2”
Our Colombian Colleagues Marcela Palacio Puera, Andres Izquierdo, and Carolina Botero have drawn our attention to the breaking news that the Colombian Constitutional Court has struck down the Free Trade Agreement Copyright implementation bill known as “Lley Lleras 2” on…
CC licensing underpins Queensland’s Open Data Revolution
[Posted by Cheryl Foong on the Creative Commons Australia site, CC-BY] The Queensland Government has implemented its ’open data revolution’ by launching the Queensland Government Data website – data.qld.gov.au. The initiative was first announced by Premier Campbell Newman in a press…
Mapping the Web Space Around the ACTA Debate
In her talk at the opening plenary of the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, Vera Franz showed this graphic which maps the web space around the ACTA debate. It shows the sites that drew most of…
Afro-IP: Nigeria to Impose Copyright Levies on “Everything Under the Sun”
[by Kingsley Egbuonu; reposted from Afro-IP] Afro-IP thanks Chukwuyere Izuogu, Streamsowers & Köhn for drawing our attention to this press release that Nigeria’s Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke SAN has granted the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) an approval to issue the Copyright…
Panelists at Cato Institute Discuss Copyright Excesses from a Libertarian Point of View
Yesterday, the Cato Institute held an event about Copyright Unbalanced: From Incentives to Excess, a new book edited by Jerry Brito from George Mason University’s Mercatus Center. The event was a panel discussion with Brito, Tom Bell from Chapman University…
Africa’s First Creative Commons 3.0 Licenses!
[Aurelia J. Schultz, Creative Commons Uganda. Original post on CC Affiliates blog.] We are pleased to announce the launch of the Creative Commons 3.0 Uganda licenses. Since joining the Creative Commons family in March of 2011, the Ugandan team has…
Treaty Shopping: How Philip-Morris Cherry-Picked Worst Case BITs
Tobacco giant, Philip-Morris, brought actions this year under investor-State arbitration mechanisms in investment treaties to challenge laws limiting (in Uruguay) or prohibiting (in Australia) the display of its trademarks in tobacco packaging. This has caused the Australian government to take…
A Mixed Bag For Fair Use In China’s Newest Copyright Law Draft
On July 6, 2012, China’s National Copyright Administration published a Second Draft for a new (third) revision (Chinese version) to the Copyright Law for the People’s Republic of China 《中华人民共和国著作权法》. Once adopted, this will become the Third Revision to the…
Germany’s Bad, and Illegal, Proposal to Require “Ancillary Copyright” Licensing of Internet Search
German news publishers are trying to require licensing fees to be paid to them for indexing their content by search companies through a proposal that may move forward in the German Parliament later this week. This ‘ancillary copyright‘ (text here)…
Copy Culture by Race and Ethnicity
We’ve looked at the difference age makes to copying and downloading (a lot), and gender (not much), and politics (not much). How about race/ethnicity? Well, it makes some. Here is our sequence of questions about attitudes toward sharing music….
Pirates are the Best Customers: Anatomy of a Ridiculous Controversy
Some weeks ago, we published a lengthy blog post called Where do Music Collections Come From? which discussed findings from our Copy Culture survey. Some of the data demonstrated that P2P file sharers (who own digital music files) buy more…