WTO Report To Chide China On Intellectual Property -Kyodo (INO News) GENEVA (Dow Jones)--The World Trade Organization has drawn up a report urging China to enhance steps to protect intellectual property rights with stiffer fines and criminal penalties for offenders, a copy of the report obtained by Kyodo News showed Saturday. |
Patent Attorney On Why We Need To Rethink Intellectual Property (Slashdot) Techdirt called our attention to an interesting video of patent attorney Stephan Kinsella's presentation on 'Rethinking Intellectual Property Completely.' It's a long presentation, but well worth the time to watch. There is also an ongoing series of posts discussing intellectual property rights on Techdirt for additional reading. Read more of this story at Slashdot. |
Intellectual property threatened as Internet avenues open wider (BizJournals) Not too long ago, companies were thought of as locally or regionally based. An Ohio firm wasn't too concerned about a competitor in California, even one with a similar name or product. They just didn't bump into each other in the marketplace. |
Intellectual property rights belong to director - Judge (Daily News) Colombo Commercial High Court Judge K.T. Chithrasiri yesterday in a judgement observed that the intellectual property rights of the Sinhala film Parliament Jokes belonged to its director and actor Ranjan Ramanayake. |
MEPs reject intellectual property rights for sporting events (Euro Observer) 09.05.2008 - 17:25 CET | By Leigh Phillips EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - MEPs on Thursday rejected attempts by some sporting associations to establish new intellectual property rights specific to sporting events, and affirmed that governments must assure wide TV access to major events such as the Olympic Games and football's World Cup, which should be on free-to-air television. |