Intellectual Property on the Internet: A Survey of Issues

A report has been published WIPO under the title of "Intellectual Property on the Internet: A Survey of Issues" in which the effects of digital technology and internet in particular have on the IP systems.

After a brief introduction describing general trends affecting the evolution of the Internet, the Survey addresses the evolving digital economy and the migration of intellectual property to the Internet, as well as the broader questions raised for intellectual property by the impact of information and communications technologies in the digital environment.

This report is accessible through

• Introduction
• I. The Internet and the Development of the Digital Society
• II. The Migration of Intellectual Property to the Internet
• III. The Impact of the Internet on Intellectual Property Law
• • (A)Copyright and Related Rights
  • (B)Trademarks and Other Rights in Distinctive Signs
  • (C)Domain Names
  • (D)Patents
• IV. The Role of Private International Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution
• V. Issues for Developing Countries in the Digital Environment
• VI. Digital Delivery of Intellectual Property Services
• VII. The WIPO Digital Agenda

source : http://www.wipo.int

Free Intellectual Property App for Iphone

Recently, a free application of iphone has been relased by PLC in which you have access to wide range of patents, trademarks and copyright sources.

It has been made easy to access over he status of trademark and patent applications, review relevant statutes, and keep up with popular intellectual property blogs.

Apptorney: IP is available free from the App Store on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/apptorney-ip/id369878225?mt=8.

The popular file-hosting service RapidShare is not guilty of copyright infringement, the United States District Court of California has ruled. The ruling is an important victory for RapidShare, which has been increasingly targeted by the entertainment industries.
Last year, adult media company Perfect 10 filed a lawsuit against the leading file-hosting service, RapidShare. Among other claims, Perfect 10’s lawsuit stated that RapidShare was guilty of infringing the copyrights of many of its images.
RapidShare itself does all it can to avoid such claims and is hoping to convert pirates into paying customers. Instead of simply removing pages where copyrighted material can be downloaded, RapidShare would like to redirect users to an online store where the same content can be bought legally.

Types of IP

Intellectual Property (IP) is about far more than just Patents. There are four main types of IP rights which you can use to protect your inventions or creations.

U.S. unveils plan to fight intellectual property piracy

WASHINGTON - The United States unveiled a wide-ranging strategic plan on Tuesday protect intellectual property from pharmaceuticals to films and pledged to confront governments that fail to crack down on piracy.

“Piracy hurts, it hurts our economy,” Vice-President Joe Biden said in releasing the 61-page plan drafted by several government agencies.

“It hurts our health and safety. We need to protect our citizens from unsafe products [such as] counterfeit pharmaceuticals.”

Victoria Espinel, co-ordinator of the intellectual property task force, said China — which has long been singled out for allowing piracy of software, music and other goods — would remain under close scrutiny for copyright and patent protection.

“We will initiate a comprehensive review of current efforts in support of U.S. businesses that have difficulty enforcing their intellectual property rights in overseas markets, with a particular focus on China,” she said.

The plan underscores U.S. efforts to protect U.S. products and service from piracy, citing the range of vulnerable items such as pharmaceuticals, medical devices, software, films and music.



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The intelectual Property Office of UK

Every nation tries to protect the Intellectual Properties. The IP office of UK helps the people to protect their ideas, innovations, creation or invention.

Patents, trade marks, designs and copyright are the services if this office. They claimed that Intellectual Property (IP) results from the expression of an idea. So IP might be a brand, an invention, a design, a song or another intellectual creation. IP can be owned, bought and sold.

Intellectual property as an important issue to protect the innovations and creativity has been put in the limelight by apple . In Jan 2009, apple has been awarded by Us Trademark office the patent covering the key aspects of iphone's multi touch interface.

Steve Jobs, as the first auther , of the published 356 pages of drawings describing the iphone's functions and operation systems interface.

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The necessity of protecting Intellectual Property

The necessity of protecting Intellectual properties is unclear to some people. They ask why the IP must be protected.

The answer is that innovation is something critical for every field. If innovation and creativity were not secured and protected, businesses would not reap the full benefits of their inventions and would focus less on research and development.

In this post of my weblog, I am gonna introduce a digital water marking to protect the intelectual Property. :

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Visual Watermark is photo watermarking software for digital photo protection. This photo watermark software places very strong watermarks that no one can remove. Your digital photos will be effectively protected from unauthorized use. It is useful for everyone who wants to protect their photos.

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By paying only 20$ . Pictures could be protected .

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Richard Humphrey, USAWAREZ.COM Operator Sentenced for Selling Pirated Copies of Movies

Richard Humphrey, 22, of North Ridgeville, Ohio, due to distributing and selling of counterfeit copyrighted movies in the internet was sentenced to 29 months in prison. This was made but the judge of District Court Judge Lesley Wells. being 3 years under supervision after his 29 months in prison is the other side of his sentence. All the computers and hard drives being used by Humphery for this crime were forfeited .

His main website of activity was USAWAREZ.COM in which he has distributed many copies of movies, games and software product without authorization from the copyright owners.

This crime has been detected by Attorneys Tyler Newby and Tara Swaminatha of the

Criminal Division’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section and Assistant U.S.

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