Video of Public Talk on Intellectual Monopolies vs. Technological Revolution
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2009-01-16 23:31:58 UTC
- Modified: 2009-01-16 23:31:58 UTC
ONE OF OUR readers has advised watching the
following long talk.
There is a lot more about Intellectual Monopolies in the news today. To give just a sample:
Despite the fact that South Africa is at the forefront of open source usage, it seems to be taking a very bad turn as far as open knowledge is concerned:
The Intellectual Property from Publicly Financed Research Bill was signed into law yesterday.
This stems from a mistaken belief that:
the best way to get research re-used for the benefit of the economy is to lock it down, and award a monopoly to one person, rather than opening it to everyone.
Shefali Sharma wrote a EED report in which she highlights the role of Trade Agreements for the subversion of democratic decision making over IPR laws.
Gerry Gavigan contributed in the name of the Open Source Consortium to the consultation for an improved European Interoperability Framework:
We were particularly pleased to see the issue of software patents addressed in a manner that prevents them being used to hinder competition rather than the original purpose of patent law, to promote innovation.
theodp writes "With its example of how ' John Doe ' could be saved in a database as 'John Doe' (i.e., without leading or trailing blanks), purported patent reformer IBM dazzled the USPTO enough to earn Big Blue a patent last Tuesday for Automatically removing leading and trailing space characters from data being entered into a database system . The three IBM 'inventors' are also seeking a related patent for Retrieving data from a database system without leading and trailing space characters. Hey, if the patent system ain't broke, don't fix it!"
Any more news on Intellectual Monopolies would be welcome.
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