A Growing Number of Individual Legal Rights Issues Intersect with the Internet, including Freedom of Expression, Access to Knowledge (A2K), Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents, Privacy, Anonymity, Surveillance, Cyber-Security, Anti-Circumvention Measures, File-Sharing, Contributory Liability, Fair Use, Fair Dealing, Intermediary Protections, Notice and Take-Down, Public Domain, Trade Secrets, Due Process, Hyperlinking, Database Rights, Enforcement of Intellectual Property, Internet Censorship
Archive of documents from 2004 and prior
Japan "File-sharing professor arrested for developing software" The Inquirer (UK) May 11, 2004 "Professor arrested over P2P software First such arrest of file-sharing developer in Japan " MS-NBC (USA) May 10, 2004
Archive of documents from 2004 and prior
Campaign for an Open Digital Environment (CODE) www.IPJustice.org/CODE/ CODE is an international coalition of civil liberties groups and consumers' rights organizations to protect innovation, competition, and consumers' rights against the proposed EU Directive on Enforcement of Intellectual Property. "Protecting Civil Liberties, Competition and Innovation in the EU Intellectual Property Rights [...]
Archive of documents from 2004 and prior
"Consumer Rights Under Fire: 321 Studios and the Demise of Fair Use" IP Justice Report March, 2004 Canadian P2P Decisions A series of decisions from 2003-4 that upheld consumers' rights to privacy and Fair Use in Canada. May 6, 2004. "Digital Copyright Question: Fair Use of Karaoke CDGs" IP Justice [...]
Archive of news from 2004 and prior
News is listed in the order that it was posted, which may not be the order in which it was initially published. 11/5/2004 Updates New Chinese regulation to protect copyrights on networks 11/3/2004 Updates The German recording industry calls for stricter rules for personal copies 11/1/2004 Updates Canadian Court Rules [...]
Archive of news from 2004 and prior
News is listed in the order that it was posted, which may not be the order in which it was initially published. 11/5/2004 Updates Miami Trademarks "Gateway to the Americas" US Insists on FTAA Negotiations 11/3/2004 Updates FTAA Unable to Come Into Existence Before 2007 10/19/2004 Updates Trinidad Newspaper: Standing [...]
Buy the Numbers: Publishers Seek Special Database Monopoly Protections
By Robin Gross - A new open-access online medical journal database teaches African doctors with no research budgets about new medicines and surgical techniques. Scientists are able to study the "greenhouse effect" because weather data is made freely available to the public over the Internet. Electronic databases have proliferated in recent years, creating new information products and services for the public. The availability of information databases fuels innovation by lowering the costs of research and development and spreading knowledge to new sectors. ...
Circumvention Prohibitions Reconsidered: Why America’s Mistake is Europe’s Future
Circumvention Prohibitions Reconsidered: Why America's Mistake is Europe's Future By Robin D. Gross, IP Justice I. US and EU Pressured to Outlaw Consumer Circumvention Today lawmakers all over the world are both dreaming of the opportunities and grappling with the challenges that digital technology creates for authors and distributors of [...]
ICANN Threatens Civil Rights of Website Owners: Intellectual Property Interests Govern Use of Personal Information
IP Justice Comments on ICANN WHOIS Preliminary Reports 5 July 2004 view as .doc view as .pdf ICANN Threatens Civil Rights of Website Owners: Intellectual Property Interests Govern Use of Personal Information July 5, 2004 Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Attention: Whois Task Force [...]
Comments by MEP Cappato translated into English
Remarks of Italian MEP Marco Cappato - EU Plenary Debate 9 March 2004 (Translation from Italian): - - - - - - - Mr. President, unlike President Imbeni, I have no reason to celebrate and rejoice with the procedure followed, because an early conciliation, as the President has defined it, [...]
9 March Open Letter from Markus Beckedahl Regarding IP Enforcement Directive – “Willkommen im Reich der Intellectual Property – Mafia” [German]
Open letter from Markus Beckedahl regarding passage of IPR Directive9 March, 2004 Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung vom Netzwerk Neue Medien und dem Verein zur Förderung der Freien Software in Österreich: Willkommen im Reich der Intellectual Property - Mafia Breite Koalition aus Bürgerrechts-, Freie Software- und Verbraucherschutzverbänden kritisiert scharf die heute im Europaparlament [...]