Sunday - December 02, 2007

 IPwars did move


Thanks to all those inquiring what has happened to IPwars.

It did move back in August to www.ipwars.com - the notice of the shift seems to have been lost in the server changeovers.

My apologies! 


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Thursday - November 29, 2007

Creative Commons, APRA and music 


APRA and Creative Commons representatives held a seminar at Griffith on whether APRA members (who assign all their copyright in performances to APRA) can release their music/lyrics under creative commons licences.

Apparently, according to APRA it turns some sort of blind eye to non-commercial uses ...


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Thursday - November 29, 2007

US v China at WTO 


After some sort of administrative hiccup, the WTO Dispute Settlement Body has finally formed a panel to hear the US' complaint that Chinese law discriminates against the distribution in China of foreign films. ... 


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Wednesday - November 21, 2007

GIs and China 


The IPDragon and the IPKat both took a look at GIs from an eastern perspective ... 


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Wednesday - November 21, 2007

Domain names and typosquatting 


McAfee has an interesting study on typosquatting, which it concludes is on the rise, and a stylised representation of why it pays ... 


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Tuesday - November 20, 2007

Internet and social media 


"Larry" Lessig on the end of the world as IP owners know it or "How creativity is being strangled by the law" ...


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Monday - November 19, 2007

Spicy IP needs our help 


The bloggers at Spicy IP are trying to enlist the help of the patent and internet communities to sign up to a petition to the Prime Minister of India to

(a) get an electronic searchable database of patents in India online;

(b) get Indian Patent Office decisions published on line too ... 


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Friday - November 16, 2007

Gossip, rumor and privacy on the internet - the future of reputation 


Remember the woman who sent a raunchy email to her boyfriend the morning after, only to have the Cad email it (eventually) all round the world?

Then, there's Dog Poop Girl, who was so embarrassingly outed on the Internet that she found it necessary to drop out of her University ... 


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Friday - November 16, 2007

Enforcement treaty 


A number of countries, including the EU, the USA, Canada, Japan and Switzerland, are promoting a new treaty to strengthen the enforcement of IP Rights - the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.

DFAT has issued a discussion paper and called for submissions by 3 December...


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Friday - November 16, 2007

The scope of injunctions 


Tamberlin J found that Dynamic Supplies had infringed Brother's trade marks by importing and selling genuine Brother undbranded products in counterfeit packaging.  What  the scope of the injunction that should follow? 


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Wednesday - November 14, 2007

Domain names and the Coase theorem 


In an online "conversation" of blogs, the Freakeconomist, Steve Levitt, and the MBS' Prof. Gans explore the the application of the Coase theorem to the allocation (or rather ownership) of domain names ...


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Monday - November 12, 2007

Futuretronics v Graphix 


The Australian Copyright Council has a short note about Futuretronics' successful claim of copyright infringement against its former supplier of adhesive covers for iPods, mobile phones and the like ... 


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Saturday - November 10, 2007

Comparing Australia and New Zealand trade mark process 


IP Australia and IPONZ have published a short report on the outcome of stage 1 of their study into the potential for aligning trade marks examination practices in the 2 countries. ... 


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Friday - November 09, 2007


Friday - November 09, 2007

Would you confuse searchmash with smashlab? 


Perhaps not as a trade mark, but what about copyright ...


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