Archive for the ‘Counterfeiting’ category

« Older Entries

ACTA will not create new IPRs or interfere with fundamental liberties statement says

July 4th, 2010

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative released a statement concerning the recent round of the ACTA negotiations in Lucerne, Switzerland. The release included he following that outlines some of the proposed limitations to the treaty:

“Participants stressed the importance of ACTA as an agreement that will establish an international framework for their efforts to more effectively combat the proliferation of counterfeiting and piracy, which undermines legitimate trade and the sustainable development of the world economy.

While ACTA aims at establishing effective enforcement standards for existing intellectual property rights, it is not intended to include new intellectual property rights or to enlarge or diminish existing intellectual property rights.

This is a preview of ACTA will not create new IPRs or interfere with fundamental liberties statement says. Read full post.

No comments »

Posted in ACTA, Copyright, Counterfeiting, Piracy

Tags:

Future of Music Coalition Panel: DC Policy Day 2010 – Focus on ACTA

May 27th, 2010

Permanent link to this post

No comments »

Posted in ACTA, Copyright, Counterfeiting, Piracy, WIPO Treaties, copyright reform

Tags:

Canada again named to USTR’s Priority Watch List for weak IP laws

April 30th, 2010

The USTR just released its 2010 Special 301 Report. Canada has again been placed on the Priority Watch List along with Algeria, Argentina, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Russia, Thailand, and Venezuela.

In placing Canada on this list, the USTR stated the following: 

This is a preview of Canada again named to USTR’s Priority Watch List for weak IP laws. Read full post.

No comments »

Posted in Copyright, Counterfeiting, Piracy, WIPO Treaties, copyright reform, intellectual property

Tags:

Calling out misreporting about ACTA

April 14th, 2010

As I have pointed out before on several occasions, there is a lot of inaccurate reporting about ACTA. In some cases, the misreporting is done by people who are intimately familiar with the actual text of the publically available draft treaty documents. In other cases, the misreporting results from relying on those widely disseminated inaccurate secondary sources. 

A case in point is recent article published by the Ottawa Citizen  and other Canwest newspapers such as the Montreal Gazette , Edmonton Journal, Calgary Herald, Windsor Star, and the Vancouver Sun dealing with ACTA. The article written by Vito Pilieci made a number of inaccurate statements about ACTA including the following statements: 

This is a preview of Calling out misreporting about ACTA. Read full post.

4 comments »

Posted in ACTA, Counterfeiting, Piracy, WIPO Treaties

Tags:

More hype than facts about ACTA from its critics

April 13th, 2010

The internet is lighting up again with opposition to the ACTA as negotiations on the trade agreement resume in New Zealand. Notwithstanding that much about the treaty is now known from well publicized leaks, its critics continue to try and slag it with misinformation and biased criticism.

Consider the following summary by Prof. Geist in yesterday’s Toronto Star article which was re-published in his blog this morning. Prof. Geist says:

This is a preview of More hype than facts about ACTA from its critics. Read full post.

No comments »

Posted in ACTA, Counterfeiting, Graduated Response, Piracy, TPMs, Three Strikes, WIPO Treaties

Tags:

Misinterpreting the IPR 2010 Report

February 25th, 2010

The Intellectual Property Rights Alliance just published its 2010 report reviewing countries’ rankings on various indexes measuring their respect for property rights. The aim of the report was to show the clear link between a country’s respect for property rights and economic prosperity.

According to the report, the link can be seen in all forms of property including intellectual property. Dealing with the latter, the report states:

This is a preview of Misinterpreting the IPR 2010 Report. Read full post.

No comments »

Posted in Copyright, Counterfeiting, IIPA, Piracy, WIPO Treaties

Tags:

Canada again in the penalty box over poor IP laws and enforcement according to 2010 IIPA 301 report

February 19th, 2010

Yesterday, the International Intellectual Property Alliance released its 2010 SPECIAL 301 REPORT ON COPYRIGHT ENFORCEMENT AND PROTECTION. The report notes that “its statement in the 2007 Special 301 report – submitted three years ago – remains, disappointingly, true today: “Canada remains far behind virtually all its peers in the industrialized world with respect to its efforts to bring its copyright laws up to date with the realities of the global digital networked environment. Indeed, even most of the major developing countries have progressed further and faster than Canada in meeting this challenge.”

This is a preview of Canada again in the penalty box over poor IP laws and enforcement according to 2010 IIPA 301 report. Read full post.

No comments »

Posted in Copyright, Counterfeiting, IIPA, Piracy

Tags:

A reply to ACTA critics

February 2nd, 2010

Last week was another busy week for developments in ACTA. There were meetings in Mexico by representatives from Canada and its key trading partners to further flesh out how to address the worldwide problems with counterfeiting and piracy. Meanwhile, anti-copyright critics were busy filling the blogosphere and press attacking the proposed treaty.

Of course, the actual text of the treaty is not know by the public. So commentators have relied on their interpretations of leaked documents to try and derail it.

When the criticisms are examined, it will be readily apparent that certain ACTA critics misapprehend what has been disclosed and make assertions or reach conclusions that cannot be justified based on the leaked documents. 

This is a preview of A reply to ACTA critics. Read full post.

2 comments »

Posted in ACTA, Copyright, Counterfeiting, ISP Liability, Piracy, TPMs, Three Strikes

Tags:

Canadian and international copyright-the year in review (2009) presentation for the LSUC

January 15th, 2010

Here is a copy of my slides presented at  the 14th Annual Law Society of Upper Canada Intellectual Property Law – The Year in Review conference. It covers the leading Canadian and international copyright cases for the 2009 year. It excludes decisions of the Copyright Board. These cases were dealt with by Mario Bouchard of the Copyright Board of Canada.

This is a preview of Canadian and international copyright-the year in review (2009) presentation for the LSUC. Read full post.

No comments »

Posted in Copyright, Counterfeiting, Fair Dealing, Fair Use, Google Book Scanning, Piracy, Presentations

OECD counterfeiting report misinterpreted to support myth of Canada as a low piracy country

November 24th, 2009

On November 20th, the OECD published a report titled Magnitude of counterfeiting and piracy of tangible products – November 2009 update. The report is an update to a previous major study on counterfeiting undertaken by the OECD in 2008. The report confirms what has been known for a long time: that counterfeiting and piracy of tangible goods is a major impediment to global trade that is getting worse. The report estimates that global trade in counterfeit and pirated tangible goods more than doubled in this decade to approximately 250 billion US dollars in 2007, up from just over USD 100 billion in 2001.

This is a preview of OECD counterfeiting report misinterpreted to support myth of Canada as a low piracy country. Read full post.

4 comments »

Posted in ACTA, Copyright, Counterfeiting, Piracy

Tags: