Intellectual Property or Internet Protocol?
In these articles, please could we have a clue, preferably in the subject, but certainly early in the first paragraph, whether we are talking about IP or IP!
Blighty's IP framework one of world's worst for consumers
A "panel of IP experts" devised a list of 49 criteria that consumer groups in 30 countries used to assess how best the IP frameworks in those nations serve consumers. Consumers International (CI), which is a global campaign group for consumers with members including Which? and Consumer Focus in the UK, published (8-page / 1.36MB …
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Tuesday 1st May 2012 21:07 GMT Jan 0
Re: Intellectual Property or Internet Protocol?
Please just write Intellectual Property in full. Register readers know what IP is, why are upstarts redefining it. (I still remember the shock when I looked into the, then new, IP Building at BT Labs, only to discover that it had nothing to do with 'IP'.)
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Tuesday 1st May 2012 08:38 GMT Anonymous Coward
never a penny of royalties?
I'm all for mass piracy as a cure for all wrongs (and once we round up media moguls to put them up against the wall, let's not forget about bankers, layers and last, but not least, politicians, past, present and wannabe.
Nevertheless I take exception to the statement like this one:
"Certainly, very little of the benefit will flow to performers, most of whom are paid a fixed fee for their performances, and never see a penny of royalties"
Particularly with "certainly", "most of them" and "never", when none of those bold statements are supported by any figures. Which, if available, could be disputed or dismissed as based on "biased / flawed / incomplete / out of context / irrelevant / one-sided / delete as appropriate" research.
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Tuesday 1st May 2012 09:04 GMT Dave 126
"extension of the term of protection of the rights of performers and record producers from 50 to 70 years"
It was extended in part because Cliff Richard was complaining that someone might soon use his earlier records in p0rn movies.... seriously.
Most of my favourite rock n rollers are, alas, long dead.
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Tuesday 1st May 2012 13:12 GMT bob 46
length of copyright
In the pharmaceutical industry, a company gets about 10 years of "copyright" for a new drug. In that 10 years they have to conduct clinical trials and get the drug to market to make a profit. After 10 years it goes "off patent" and anyone can copy it, which is why Tesco own brand asprin is about 30p for 16.
This seems about right to me. When intellectual property is created, it is right for the creator to profit. But, if that copyright expired after 10 years, other people could then use the music / film / writing / artwork in derivative works. It seems to me that this should add vitality to the entertainment / arts industries, and it would make it a lot easier to get hold of those old classics without breaking the law.
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Wednesday 2nd May 2012 06:18 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: length of copyright
On one hand the greater availability of drugs is beneficial to mankind, so a relatively short exclusive period is good.
On the other hand Transformers films have been shown to have no medicinal properties whatsoever. So perhaps its not so important that certain types of media have shorter copyright.
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Wednesday 2nd May 2012 13:22 GMT mhenriday
Drugs are «protected» by patents, not by copyrights -
in the United States, for example, the term of patent is twenty years from the date of the filing of the first US application. The term of copyright is, as the article shows, much longer. As regards the case of «Aspirin», acetylsalicyl acid was first synthesized by a French chemist in 1853, and in 1899 Friedrich Bayer & Co was granted a patent for this substance under the trade name «Aspirin» by the Kaiserliche Patentamt in Berlin (obviously, even in those days not too much attention was paid to «prior art»). Thus even had «Aspirin» been «protected» by copyright legislation of the type in place today in many countries, acetylsalicyl acid would still be a so-called «generic» substance, and anyone who so wished could manufacture and sell it (subject, of course, to approval by the health authorities)....
Henri
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