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EU pushes for an international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A recent statement from the European Commission reveals that it has started negotiations with US, Japan, Korea, Mexico and New Zealand to create an international treaty on counterfeiting – Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), despite the absence of any independent data on the topic. The European Commission […]
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WIPO General Assembly adopted the PCDA proposals
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) member states adopted during the General Assembly on 28 September 2007 the recommendations made in June 2007 by the Provisional Committee on Proposals for a WIPO Development Agenda (PCDA). The recommendations include 45 proposals that cover six activity clusters: Technical Assistance […]
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Human Rights in the Information Society – rediscover the proportionality
On 13-14 September 2007 the French Commission for UNESCO, UNESCO and the Council of Europe organised the conference “Ethics and Human Rights in the Information Society” in Strasbourg, to which EDRi was invited to contribute. This conference was the third in a cycle of regional conferences on the ethical dimensions of the information society, which […]
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OOXML – negative vote at International Organization for Standardization
Microsoft supported format Office Open XML (OOXML) did not received a positive vote in the ISO (International Organization for Standardization) ballot that ended on 2 September 2007, failing to achieve the number of votes necessary for its approval as a standard. Open Office XML is a XML-based file format specification for electronic documents, developed by […]
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Reactions on the ISO voting procedures
The recent vote on the OOXML draft standard revealed a number of problems with the ISO procedures, at national as well as international level. The national procedures have been often accused of being influenced by Microsoft, especially in Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, Portugal, the Netherlands, and the US. Protests about Microsoft exerting improper influence on the […]
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EDRI signs "Keep The Core Neutral" petition
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) European Digital Rights Initiative (EDRI) has joined more than 100 individuals and organizations from around the world in signing the petition “Keep The Core Neutral” urging ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ) to resist efforts to evaluate applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) […]
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ENDitorial : The End of Multilateral Broadcast Treaty
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The summer special session of United Nation’s World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related rights (SCCR) ended with an outcome that effectively killed the proposed treaty for protection of broadcast organisations (Broadcast Treaty). The committee called off the Diplomatic Conference that was supposed […]
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PCDA brings a major change in the WIPO mandate
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) During 11-15 June 2007, the Provisional Committee on Proposals for a WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) Development Agenda (PCDA) had meetings during which WIPO members negotiated agreements on several proposals for new activities of the UN organization. “This is a major achievement. It’s a complete overhaul of […]
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International Declaration on G8 and Intellectual Property launched
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The German non-profit organization “Netzwerk Freies Wissen” (Free Knowledge Network) heavily criticizes the goals of the conference held by the G8 states’ ministers of justice starting on 23 May 2007. The most important item on the agenda is a stronger enforcement of intellectual property. For this reason […]
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ENDitorial – About EFF Europe
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) As some of our readers already know, the biggest digital civil rights NGO from the United States has opened this year a new office in Brussels to work with EU policy issues. EFF’s new European Affairs Coordinator, Erik Josefsson, was previously the president of the Swedish chapter […]
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Results of the WIPO’s SCCR Special Session 1
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The broadcast treaty was the only item on the agenda of the three-day special session of WIPO’s standing committee on copyright and related rights. (SCCR). At the meeting it became clear that no-one really knew how to proceed with the negotiations. The chairman Jukka Liedes (Finland) tried […]
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Discussion during IGF against Internet content control
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The first global Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was organized by United Nations in Athens between 30 October and 2 November 2006. The forum has shown a strong and large opposition to Internet blocking and filtering, putting under pressure repressive governments such as China. The three sessions devoted […]
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