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Campaign Aims To Take Back Consumer Rights Over IP-Protected Products

By Intellectual Property Watch

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Copyright and patent laws "are often misused" for reasons that have "more to do with limiting competition and preventing consumers from making innovative uses of their products" than they do with stopping piracy, global consumer advocacy group Consumers International plans to tell a UN internet meeting today. Such misuse includes limitations on the use of third-party content on devices such as the iPhone, and regional codes that prevent consumers from playing DVDs bought legally abroad in a consumer's home country.

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Full post as published by Intellectual Property Watch on September 14, 2010 (boomark / email).

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