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articles · Superman – caught in a cage called copyright!
11/4/2008 20:43 · 24 votes · 1 comment
This month, iCommons’ resident copyright columnist, Tobias Schonwetter, offers his view on a recent US court decision which reassigned the copyright in Superman-related works to the family of one of the original creators.
At the end of March 2008, United States District Judge Stephen G. Larson issued a decision which in the eyes of many provided a long overdue vindication for...
articles · No one needs to die of HIV/Aids any more – in theory
11/2/2008 21:56 · 29 votes · 2 comments
This month, iCommons’ resident copyright columnist, Tobias Schonwetter, deals with the interrelation between access to medicine and HIV/Aids. He argues that patent law appears to be the crucial area of law in this respect but suggests that the role of copyright law should not be underestimated.
South Africa has clearly become a home-away-from-home for me over the last couple...
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articles · Intellectual Property?!
3/10/2007 17:40 · no comments
This month, legal columnist, Tobias Schonwetter, discusses the flawed philosophical foundation upon which intellectual property protection is based.
A friend recently told me about his plan to eventually set up a blog in order to keep people updated about his progress in his mountain bike racing career. Within minutes of the discussion, he furrowed his brow and asked me: “But...
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articles · Hamburg humbug: Chinese terracottas, authenticity and exhibitions
by Francis Deblauwe · voted on 8/2/2008 00:05 · 35 votes · no comments
What is authentic? What is original? What is fake? What is a replica? Can you answer those questions? Ever since an exhibition in a Hamburg museum, which featured eight real terracotta warrior statues from the world famous tomb of China’s emperor Qin, was closed down in December, these questions are not purely academic any more.
Emperor Qin
Qin Shi Huangdi was China’s first...
articles · Brazilian Limitations and Exceptions to Copyright: Impacts on A2K
by Paula Martini · voted on 26/11/2007 19:19 · 48 votes · 2 comments
The majority of Brazilians simply do not know much about copyright. The Brazilian population in general knows that copyright exists, but actual copyright rules are not well recognized. When asked to take a guess if a certain act of reproduction is against the law, many Brazilian nationals would probably give a correct answer, but actual knowledge of the law – its text and possible...
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articles · Baby steps
by Paul Jacobson · commented on 16/7/2007 22:45 · 4 comments
It frustrates me to no end that in this age of the iPod and a number of other portable audio devices that it is still technically illegal for a person who buys a CD to rip that music to his computer and then transfer that music to his iPod (or other portable device) to listen to the music on the go. I'm not talking about a person who distributes that music to half a million of...
articles · Inactive Political Activists
by Tobias Schonwetter · commented on 17/6/2007 20:26 · 23 votes · 1 comment
The first official day of this year’s iSummit in Dubrovnik was a long day indeed– with participants struggling a bit towards the end of the day with the summer heat here in stunning Croatia. On this day, between 5 p.m. and 6h30 p.m., well-known political activists discussed “their strategies for fighting against strong IP legislation, advocating for change and taking copyrights...
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