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EFF Wins Petition to Inspect and Modify Car Software2015-10-27
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Librarian of Congress has granted security researchers and others the right to inspect and modify the software in their cars and other vehicles, despite protests from vehicle manufacturers.
IFJ Calls on Writers to Demand Their Rights from Google2009-10-30
International Federation of Journalists
the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on all journalists who have had their books scanned by Google through its Google Book Search to claim their rights to payment.
Science and Innovation for a Better World: Media Piracy in Emerging Economies 2011-06-01
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
In a panel discussion at IDRC on June 3, three internationally renowned experts will discuss the implications of media piracy for the global economy. Media Piracy in Emerging Economies editor Joe Kar...
Science et innovation, cls d'un monde meilleur : Le piratage des medias dans les economies emergentes2011-06-01
Centre de recherches pour le developpement international
A l'occasion dun debat d'experts organise au CRDI le 3 juin, trois experts de renommee internationale aborderont les implications du piratage des medias pour l'economie mondiale. Joe Karaganis, le dir...
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Anatomy of a Copyright Coup: Jamaica's Public Domain PlunderedMalcolm, Jeremy
Article
2015
Electronic Frontier Foundation
A bill extending the term of copyright by an additional 45 years -- almost doubling it, in the case of corporate and government works -- sailed through the Jamaican Senate on June 26, after having pas...
Avoiding Gripes About Your Gripe (or Parody) SiteArticle
2009
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Here's a story we hear a lot at EFF: You think BadCo, Inc. is a bad actor and you've developed a really cool site to tell the world why. Maybe just by griping about them or maybe through a bit of paro...
Brazen, extortionate: Photographer sues Getty Images for $1bn after copyright claim on her work Article
2016
RT
Photographer Carol M. Highsmith is suing Getty Images for $1 billion in damages for using her images after she was slapped with a lawsuit from a company which screamed infringement after she published...
Criticism of Intellectual PropertySources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Criticism of PatentsSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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EFF Wins Petition to Inspect and Modify Car SoftwareSources News Release
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2015
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Librarian of Congress has granted security researchers and others the right to inspect and modify the software in their cars and other vehicles, despite protests from vehicle manufacturers.
Facebook forces Instagram users to allow it to sell their uploaded photosArthur, Charles
Article
2012
Guardian
Move means pictures could be used in advertising, with all payments going to social media giant.
Gene wars: the last-ditch battle over who owns the rights to our DNAMcKie, Robin
Article
2013
Guardian Weekly
A US biotech company is fighting to protect the patents it took out on a test for a cancer-causing gene. Scientists say a win for the firm would set back a growing ability to detect diseases.
Gimme the Loot Mueller, Gavin
Article
2012
Jacobin Magazine
Once the heroes of nations, pirates went from being state-sponsored champions to tolerated annoyances to the basest sort of criminals. Henry Morgan was knighted after plundering Panama in 1674; fifty ...
The Great Seed Piracy Shiva, Vandana
Article
2016
Toward Freedom
A great seed and biodiversity piracy is underway and it must be stopped. The privateers of today include not just the corporations -- which are becoming fewer and larger through mergers -- but also in...
IFJ Calls on Writers to Demand Their Rights from GoogleSources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on all journalists who have had their books scanned by Google through its Google Book Search to claim their rights to payment.
Indigenous Intellectual PropertySources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Industrial Design RightSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Intangible PropertySources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Describes something which a person or corporation can have ownership of and can transfer ownership of to another person or corporation, but has no physical substance. It generally refers to statutory ...
Intellectual CapitalSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Intellectual PropertySources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage projectSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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An international research initiative to explore and facilitate fair and equitable exchanges of knowledge relating to archaeology.
Intellectual Property Regime Undermines Equity, ProgressSundaram, Jomo K
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2018
Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Developing countries must reject the intellectual property rights regime imposed on them by powerful foreign monopolies in recent decades.
Intellectual Property ValuationSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Intellectual RightsSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Intellectual rights (from the French "droits intellectuels") is a term sometimes used to refer to the legal protection afforded to owners of intellectual capital.
Intellectual Rights to Magic MethodsSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Refers to the legal and ethical debate about the extent to which proprietary or exclusive rights may subsist in the methods or processes by which magic tricks or illusions are performed.
IntelligentSearch.caWebsite
2017
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A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make ...
Netizen Report: Rights at Risk Under Trans-Pacific Trade Deal Roberts Biddle, Ellery; Myers West, Sarah
Article
2015
Global Voices Advocacy
The controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement may soon become reality after years of high-level trade deliberations that have been held almost entirely behind closed doors.
Open ContentSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 8, 2015Elections
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Richwood, Darien Yawching (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2015
connexions
Elections are the topic of the week, with items related to the October 19 Canadian federal election, and also to broader issues of parliamentary democracy, voting and whether voting can bring about ch...
PatentSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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A set of exclusive rights granted by a state (national government) to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for a public disclosure of an invention.
Patent FollySainath, P.
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1995
Sources
The misuse of patents rights and associated dangers.
Permissive Free Software LicenceSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Pirating CreativityThe MPAA Is Going After Schoolchildren
Eby, Travis
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2013
CounterPunch
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) goes all-out enforce its “intellectual property” claims upon those who would dare share and distribute media.
Public DomainSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Related RightsSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Release of the Full TPP Text After Five Years of Secrecy Confirms Threats to Users' RightsMalcolm, Jeremy; Sutton, Maira
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2015
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Trade offices involved in negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement have finally released all 30 chapters of the trade deal today, a month after announcing the conclusion of the deal i...
Resell RightsSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Scams in Intellectual PropertySources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Service MarkSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Share-alikeSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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A descriptive term used in the Creative Commons project for copyright licenses which include certain copyleft provisions.
Sweat of the BrowSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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TPP Undermines User Control and That's Disastrous for AccessibilitySutton, Maira
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2015
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) threatens all users' ability to access information and participate in culture and innovation online, but it's especially severe for those with disabilities or who o...
Trade SecretSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Traditional KnowledgeSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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Utility ModelSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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We Goofed! (or the game's afoot)Zwicker, Barrie
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1999
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Without Intellectual Property DayArticle
2014
Electronic Frontier Foundation
As the saying goes, though: when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. For the World Intellectual Property Organization, it may seem like creativity and "intellectual property" are inextricab...
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The Cultural Industries in CanadaProblems, Policies and Prospects
Dorland, Michael (ed.)
Book
1996
Dorland discusses policy problems specific to the Canadian cultural industries that produce cultural commodities, such as books, films and television programs.
Private Profits vs Public PolicyThe Pharmaceutical Industry and the Canadian State
Lexchin, Joel
Book
2016
According to Joel Lexchin, "Given the central role that medicines play in keeping us healthy, it is essential that we understand the policy environment that governs drug development, from the initial ...
Government Ministries & Agencies
Canadian Intellectual Property OfficeAdministers Canada's intellectual property systems (patents, trade-marks, copyrights, industrial designs, and integrated circuit topographies).
Copyright Board CanadaEconomic regulatory body empowered to establish, the royalties to be paid for the use of copyrighted works, when the administration of such copyright is entrusted to a collective-administration societ...
Industry CanadaIndustry Canada's mission is to foster a growing, competitive, and innovative knowledge-based Canadian economy that provides more and better jobs for Canadians; supports stronger, sustainable business...
National Research Council of CanadaCanada's premier organization for research and development.
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