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Zach Carter

Obama Administration Softens 'Shameful' Fight Against Cheap Drugs For Poor Countries

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Ip, Pepfar, United Nations, Generic Drugs, Mitch Daniels, Hiv, Who, Obama, Barack Obama, Developing Nations, Doctors Without Borders, World Health Assembly, Video, Intellectual Property, World Health Organization, AIDS/HIV, U.N., World Intellectual Property Organization, Generics, Prescription Drugs, Aids, Wipo, Un, Patents. Trade Deals, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A change of heart from the Obama administration may pave the way to a groundbreaking global deal to provide lifesaving medications to de...

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Joshua Hersh

Palestinian UNESCO Bid Sets Up Clash Between Hollywood And Israel Lobbies

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Palestine, Google, Palestine Unesco, Ip, Palestinian Statehood, Unesco, Israel Lobby, Microsoft, Mpaa, Intellectual Property Law, Video, Intellectual Property, World Intellectual Property Organization, Chinese Piracy, Wipo, Dvd Piracy, Israel, Palestine Statehood, China, Unesco Palestine, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Pro-Israel interests on Capitol Hill may be about to run afoul of the nearly equally powerful lobbyists of Hollywood and Silicon Valley,...

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Innovation Shifted To China During The Downturn: U.N. Report

Huffington Post | Nathaniel Cahners Hindman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: R, General Motors, Germany, World Intellectual Property Organization, Trademarks, Patent Office, Innovation, Japan, Europe, Global-Downturn, China, Video, Business News

It's an unfortunate fact of a downturn: declining corporate cash flows and slumping confidence usually induce firms to file fewer patents and slash sp...

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US Tries to Block Progress on Treaty for Blind and Other Disabilities

James Love | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Copyright Disabilities, Copyright Blindness, Un, Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, World Intellectual Property Organization, World News
James Love

Today a UN body is trying to reach an agreement on work on copyright exceptions for persons who are blind or have other disabilities. The US Patent and Trademark Office is aggressively trying to block it.

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Why Is the Obama Administration Not Standing Up for People with Disabilities?

James Love | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Disabled, Intellectual Property, Blindness, Disabilities, Disability, World Intellectual Property Organization, Books News
James Love

Why are publishers and their responsive friends in the US and EU governments so opposed the efforts to create strong global exceptions for persons who have disabilities?

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UN: Illegal Music Sharers Should Not Be Jailed

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Music Piracy, Music Sharing, Piracy, Wipo, World Intellectual Property Organization, United Nations, UN Music Sharing, UN Internet Piracy, Illegal Music Sharing, UN Piracy, File Sharing, UN File Sharing, Un, Illegal Music Downloading, UN Copyright, Technology News

The heavy punishment of illegal file sharers on the web will be counter-productive in the global fight against Internet piracy and copyright infringem...

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Glenn Beck Loses Claim Against Web Site Creator's Glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Glenn Beck Conspiracy Theories, Web, Trademarks, Isaac Eiland-Hall, Intellectual Property Law, Trademark Law, glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.Com, thresq.com, Glenn Beck Website, Www.glennbeckrapedandmurferedayounggirlin1990.Com, Satire, World Intellectual Property Organization, Parody, Eiland-Hall, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck Web Site, Wipo, Fox, Media News

A web site mocking Glenn Beck's integrity has won a claim brought against it by the Fox News commentator accusing the site of violating trademark righ...

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Facebook.ir: UN Orders Iranian Man To Hand Over Web Address

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, United Nations, Facebook, Facebook Privacy, Facebook Lawsuit, Facebook Iran, World Intellectual Property Organization, United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization, Majid Karimian Ghannad, Iran Election, Iran Protests, Iran Facebook, World News

GENEVA — Social networking site Facebook has won control of a Web address using its name and the country suffix .ir for Iran. The U.N.'s World ...

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Obama Joins Group to Block Treaty for Blind and Other Reading Disabilities

James Love | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Intellectual Property, Braille, Dyslexia, Blindness, Reading Disability, World Intellectual Property Organization, Business News
James Love

The number of accessible works is very small everywhere. However, in developing countries, the collections are super small, and access to works in languages other than English is practically non-existent.

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