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New Report Measures Role of the Internet in the Global Economy

McKinnsey Global Institute has published “Internet matters: The Net’s sweeping impact on growth, jobs, and prosperity.” Among the report’s estimates: Internet activity represents 3.8% of total GDP in a sample of 13 countries that together represent 70% of world economic output; Internet activity accounted for 11% of GDP growth in these countries over the past […]

TorrentFreak: U.S. Government Starts New Round of ‘Pirate’ Domain Seizures.

By Mike Palmedo
May 23, 2011
News Stories from Other Sources, Document Library, Takedown

DHS Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has seized more domain names of websites offering unauthorized access to copyrighted material in the fourth round Operation In Our Sites. TorrentFreak has been tracking the takedowns, and it reports that “Among the new targets are two sites that linked to copyrighted films hosted on third party streaming sites.” […]

Civil Society Comments on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

[gview file=”http://infojustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Civil-Society-Comments-on-the-Trans-Pacific-Partnership-Agreement.pdf”] Author Bijan Madhani

Civil Society Platform on IP in the Trans Pacific Partnership

By Mike Palmedo
May 20, 2011
TPP

Eight civil society groups have released a platform on the intellectual property and health content of the Trans Pacific Partnership. The platform calls ex-officio border measures “inappropriate,” rejects a “one size fits all” regime for patent validity, and warns against using the suggested retail price or rightholder-submitted measurements of value in the determination of damages […]

UK Government-Commissioned Report Finds IP Framework a Barrier to Innovative Industries, Recommends Changes

By Mike Palmedo
May 20, 2011
Academic Resources, Empirical Research, Positive Agenda, US Domestic Policies

A “Review of Intellectual Property and Growth” by Cardiff University Professor Ian Hargreaves, commissioned by UK Prime Minster Cameron in November 2010, finds that “copyright law has started to act as a regulatory barrier to the creation of certain kinds of new, innovative businesses.” The laws were largely crafted before the emergence of digital technologies, […]