As Big Content continues its assault on network neutrality, privacy, personal and digital freedom, and stacks government with industry friendly insiders, President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor should be heavily scrutinized regarding her stance on intellectual property and copyright issues.
Still waiting for change you can believe in? Well, believe this: the White House just declared an intellectual property treaty a state secret and denied Freedom of Information Act requests asking that it reveal the details of an international treaty that could have huge effects on how information is disseminated online.
A new study commissioned by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and produced by RAND links the film piracy trade to terrorism, drug cartels, and human trafficking, and calls upon governments to do more about intellectual property protection. But what it really is is another attempt to convince governments to spy on everybody on behalf of one mafia trying to muscle out other mafias.
The priorities of the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property ("PRO IP") Act of 2007 have been criticized on several points.
Google's trademark lawyers are gearing up to take on a new foe in the intellectual property arena: JewTube. No, that's not a typo.
Microsoft swaggered out of Redmond today with steely eyes and leathery skin, heeled with a pair of six shooters aimed at cybersquatters - four of them Microsoft knows by name, and 217 of them it doesn't. In the saddlebag, software for anybody else with the guts to chase these dogs down.
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