Copyright, Intellectual Property and the Extradition Saga of Kim Dotcom
• http://www.globalresearch.ca,By Dr. Binoy KampmarkThe hunger with which US officials pursue copyright or general intellectual property violations is insatiably manic.
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The hunger with which US officials pursue copyright or general intellectual property violations is insatiably manic.
Can we imagine a world without intellectual property? With the various enemies of freedom finding ever more elaborate ways to control the internet, we may have to find an answer to that question sooner than we think. Join us this week on The Corbett
Observing that "copyright is not a divine right", the Delhi high court on Friday allowed Delhi University to issue photocopies of major textbooks published by leading publishers. The Justice held that the act of students getting books copied from
New technologies are making copyright law and manufacturing as we know it obsolete. The world is on the precipice of a giant change and many people don't see it coming yet. Very soon life as you know it will be very different.
UK & EU Shut Out 3D Printing Community … It's amazing what an eruption Brexit had in the headlines, only to be superseded by worse things in the news shortly after … What an interesting law they have chosen to pass. -3DPrint
Verizon is buying Yahoo for $4.8 billion … It's official: The sale completes Yahoo's evolution from influential search pioneer and web portal juggernaut to, in the end, a once-dominant brand that lost its way. Parties as diverse as Warren Buffe
If TPP is passed in its current form – and then enforced – this could have a significant impact on the sharing of ideas and information through the Internet.
Plenty of companies set up proprietary standards to ensure their customers don't use someone else's products with theirs. Keurig puts codes on their single-cup coffee pods, and engineers their coffee makers to work only with those codes.
A Brazilian judge ordered the text messaging service WhatsApp shut down. It was a monumental action. WhatsApp is the most popular app in Brazil, used by about 100 million people. The Brazilian telecoms hate the service which entices people away
Canada is the most-sued country under international free trade agreements that make it possible for private companies to sue governments for billions of dollars if a law threatens to hurt their profits
Wikileaks has published a leaked draft -- dated Oct, 5, and thus possibly the final text -- of the "Intellectual Property Chapter" of the Trans Pacific Partnership, and it's grim reading.
Wikileaks has published a leaked draft -- dated Oct, 5, and thus possibly the final text -- of the "Intellectual Property Chapter" of the Trans Pacific Partnership, and it's grim reading.
One major carmaker after another--Tesla, BMW, Toyota, and now Ford--is making its cutting-edge electric car patents available for use by their rivals, some with licensing fees and others completely free.
The courts seem to still live in the book burning times, when they had some kind of authority over what information was allowed to exist and what information could be effectively silenced. That has not been the case for 20 years.
"CISPA would encourage the open sharing of personal data with nearly no privacy protections--a profound abuse of users' rights," said a lawyer. "It would create yet another surveillance regime, giving the NSA new sources of user data,
Stephan Kinsella (Intellectual Property/Patent Attorney) on the constitutionality of Intellectual Property; Cryptocurrency/Bitcoin - Reed Jessen (Founder of The Cryptocurrency Defense Foundation) on defending the cryptocurrency economy.
Apple, which has a plurality share of the smartphone market, has once again taken Samsung to court for supposed theft. Apple sought over $2 billion in damages for patent infringement. CNET reports, “The jury found all of Samsung’s accused gadgets inf
What is the status of intellectual property? Are patents and copyrights legitimate in a free society?
We noted last year:
Did you know that the Obama administration is negotiating a super secret "trade agreement" that is so sensitive that he isn't even allowing members of Congress to see it?
The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, a multi-national trade agreement the United States is negotiating in secret, seeks to export U.S.-styled intellectual-property rules abroad, according to a leaked chapter of the deal WikiLeaks published today.
Countries involved in the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership.
In my view, patent and copyright should be abolished, for a number of reasons. First, most advocates of IP admit that they are temporary monopoly privileges, that these laws are deviations from the free market, from a private property system. But the
Jennifer Jones (Publisher, The DESERT FREEDOM PRESS) provides an update on Quartzsite, AZ - Stephan Kinsella (Patent Attorney, libertarian theorist/lecturer) on Intellectual Property
The Obama administration has been caught red-handed engaged in software piracy. Computer code used on Healthcare.gov was stolen (and then modified in an effort to conceal the theft) from a UK company called Spry Media.
The operator of the popular file-sharing service isoHunt, which the courts have declared a massive copyright scofflaw, is shutting down to settle a long-running lawsuit from the Motion Picture Association of America, according to court records lodged
Jack Valenti, the late president of the Motion Picture Association of America, once warned that a new form of distribution might kill his industry.
Can you own an idea? This may seem to be a simple question, however the question requires a complex answer. And unlike most issues, not all people who fall into the libertarian quadrant of the Nolan Chart agree on the answer. While many people bel
Existing intellectual property laws don’t exactly cover 3D printing.
"Anti-piracy curriculum for elementary schools decried as ‘propaganda'"