Intellectual Property Law

global minilinks for 2008-12-02

By danny

• Citizen Safeguards Struck Out in EU Council
  La Quadrature Du Net analyse the latest moves in Europe's telecoms package - still a mixed bag for protecting rights online.
• Inside Italy's Net Filters
  An overview of the "P-Box" - the bespoke Debian install intended to filter content at Italian ISPs.
• Google's Gatekeepers
  The New York Times investigates who decides when Google is told to block content.
• Internet Users to Expect "Remote Searches" from EU Police?
  The EU's five year cybercrime plan include proposals for government-permitted trojan software and "joint investigation teams" (rightsholders and police working together).
• Nokia Wants Law to Allow Snooping on Finnish Employees
  After lobbying by the phone giant, Finland considers allowing businesses to examine the email logs of workers suspected of leaking secrets.
• Michael Geist - Why Copyright?
  Canadian thinkers, artists and businesspeople speak out on copyright in this film by Michael Geist and Daniel Albahary.
• Studying Chinese Blog Censorship
  Rebecca Mackinnon takes a closer look at what goes on when private companies aid in domestic censorship.
• Anger at Indonesian Tagging Plan
  Country plans to plant RFIDs in "sexually aggressive" HIV positive citizens.
• Obama and IP
  Senior Phillippines IP Attorney hopes Obama will bring change to the international intellectual property policies of the United States.
• Four Google Officials Face Italian Trial for Third-Party Video
  Video upload prompts unknown charges against the employees of the company hosting it.

Full post as published by Electronic Freedom Foundation - Deep Links on December 02, 2008 (boomark / email).