PUBLIC MARKS from mbertier with tag ip

Le rejet du texte par le Parlement, mercredi, est un camouflet pour la Commission européenne et le conseil des ministres, qui n'avaient pas tenu compte de la première lecture du Parlement restreignant le champ d'application de la directive.

Réponses aux "cease & desist" -- plutot hilarant

Can ya belive it? Learned men of science denying alien intelligence the Beatles for fear of being sued?

I get a lot of questions about licensing which seem easy to me. I've just realized that the cause is probably that people don't understand all the pieces of the Free Software licensing system.

Toi aussi, décrypte la bonne parole du gouvernement !

Hollywood and the recording industry are asking for the power to sue out of existence any technology that appears to be a threat, even if it passes the Betamax test.

"Ulrich says he believes that cover bands, mash-ups, and the right to re-interpret art on the internet are things worth fighting for." -- Ulrich == metallica drummer

This paper discusses the failure of DRM in the developed world, where it has been in wide deployment for a decade with no benefit to artists and with substantial cost to the public and to due process, free speech and other civil society fundamentals.

"The Australian equivalent of the Screen Actors Guild has apparently refused to allow its members to participate in a film project--because the project would be licensed under a Creative Commons license:"

Last week, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) announced that it will shut out most public interest organizations at two important meetings devoted to intellectual property and development.

"7 March 2005 -- The Council Presidency today declared the software agreement of 18 May 2004 to have been adopted, in violation of the procedural rules and in spite of the evident lack of a qualified majority of member states and the requests of several states to reopen negotiations." RHAAAAAAA

"the Sonny Bono copyright act is preventing a the final volumes of a new translation of Proust from appearing in the US."

The Clayton F. Summy Company is no longer independent, but, through a chain of purchases, the copyright for Happy Birthday To You lies securely in the hands of the Time Warner company. Happy Birthday's copyright is licensed and enforced by ASCAP, and the simple little ditty brings in more than USD $2 million in annual royalties.

Traduction française des Creative Commons

Qu'est-ce qu'un brevet logiciel ? A quoi servent les brevets logiciels ? Quel est le problème avec les propositions de la Commission et du Conseil ?

morons