European Commission to exclude Open Source developers with patented standards?
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| The European Commission is organizing next week in Brussels a conference
| on "European ICT standardisation policy at a crossroads: A new direction for
| global success". Among the papers in discussion for this conference, one
| paper suggests to allow RAND standards as general policy. The European
| Commission seems to listen to the big industry who contributed to the
| discussion paper. RAND standards (such as h264 or MPEG2) are a way to exclude
| FLOSS developers, because they require royalty payments that developers
| cannot afford.
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http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-39739/european-commission-to-exclude-open-source-developers-with-patented-standards
http://tinyurl.com/36u6m8
French and German delegations visit EPO
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| Europe's relations with China in respect of IP rights, the perspectives of
| introducing the Community Patent and the question of a central European court
| for patents were discussed during a visit by a high-level German-French
| delegation to the EPO today.
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http://www.epo.org/topics/news/2008/20080201.html
S**t patent alert:
BlackBerry Patent app describes wireless changing of theme screens
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| A new BlackBerry Patent application entitled System and Method for Adaptive
| Theming Of A Mobile Device describes ways that a BlackBerry wireless carrier
| or third-party theme screen developer could configure, or reconfigure, a
| subscriber’s BlackBerry theme remotely.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/blackberry/?p=521
Related:
Lessig: Required Reading: the next 10 years
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| The answer is a kind of corruption of the political process. Or better,
| a "corruption" of the political process. I don't mean corruption in the
| simple sense of bribery. I mean "corruption" in the sense that the
| system is so queered by the influence of money that it can't even get
| an issue as simple and clear as term extension right.
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003800.shtml#003800
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5jkZFIwmc-8
RIAA, MPAA urge pro-copyright vows from presidential candidates
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| One question, for instance, asks: "How would you promote the progress of
| science and creativity, as enumerated in the U.S. Constitution, by upholding
| and strengthening copyright law and preventing its diminishment?"
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9821141-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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