About a week ago, Patry also mentioned another piece of interesting news that the WTO now allows the island-state of Antigua to circumvent US copyright law because the US illegally blocked access to their online gambling services.[2]
As the Internet becomes more accessible to everyone, copyright laws across borders will become one of the most important issues facing US and international economy, especially if IP really is the "oil of the 21st century."
Best, // Matt [1] http://williampatry.blogspot.com/2008/01/israelis-new-copyright-law.html [2] http://williampatry.blogspot.com/2007/12/delicious-irony-in-using-ip-as-trade.html and http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/22/business/worldbusiness/22gambling.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin ---------- Matt Agnello http://www.hungryfilmmaker.com < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Jan 5, 2008, at 10:52 PM, Denver Gingerich wrote:
On Jan 5, 2008 3:02 PM, Matthew J. Agnello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:[...]I've set up a variety of outlets for users to track and contribute to thedevelopment of the project. Using Lessig's corruption wikinotes as anexample, I've set up a series of pages on my wiki for keeping track of required reading, current events, people I should know about, etc. You can find the portal at http://www.hungryfilmmaker.com/wiki/ Portal:Copycat. If you'd like to contribute, please go to the wiki, create an account, and pokearound a bit.I've added a page on international copyright treaties to the Topics section. Let me know if you have any questions about it. Since the wiki happened to omit information on international copyright treaties, but included a note on US copyright treaties, I'll talk a bit about that. I am in no way picking on you specifically, Matt; it just so happens that I have time to expand on this now and your e-mail was the most recent one that brought it to mind. I find that it is often the case that discussions relating to copyright law (at least on FC-discuss and other lists I'm on) center around what US law says about a particular issue. While these are great for people that live in the US, the discussions are not very useful for people that live in other countries. Although one may not be able to get into as much legal depth (since each country implements treaties differently), it may be much more useful in these discussions to talk about international copyright treaties such as the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the Berne Convention. These treaties are signed by most countries on the planet [1] so are quite relevant for most people. One can include notes on optional parts of the treaties that specific countries have implemented when discussing these treaties. For example, you may wish to note when talking about the length of copyright terms that the Berne Convention states this is at least 50 years for signing countries while the US has chosen to implement a longer term. Talking about international copyright treaties is not only useful for people in more countries, but it also promotes awareness of which laws are specific to certain countries and which laws are internationally recognized. Let me know if you have any questions or comments about this. I'm always up for discussion. Denver 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_international_copyright_treaties _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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