Today is World Intellectual Property Day 2007!
This year WIPO celebrates the link between intellectual property and creativity under the theme - Encouraging Creativity.
You can check out what activities are going on around the world to celebrate World Intellectual Property Day 2007 on WIPO’s website. Prize for the person who identifies the funniest one!
Image by Eszter on Flickr CC-BY-NC-SA
Just a quickie!
The latest issue of Open Government has just been published. The journal's aim is to publish research and communications related to Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation from the perspective of academics, practitioners and FOI users. At only two years old it is a relatively new jounrnal (for obvious reasons!)
I read an article in Mediabistro.com about Harper’s magazine putting articles from its 157 year archive online. This brings up licensing issues (what use(s) did the authors licence to Harper’s?) and also highlights the time and effort required for rights clearance activities. Harper's VP, public relations Giulia Melucci is reported to have said "In an ideal world we would have contacted all 40,000 writers living and dead." Presumably we can take from this that they didn’t.
Image by Geff Rossi on Flickr CC-BY-NC-NDThis event looks interesting. Thanks to Sean Flynn for flagging it up. I'm afraid I can't make it but hopefully somone else can. Although it's taking place in the States there is a live webcast.
Sean's message was as follows:
Please join us for
User Generated Content: The Copyright Conundrum
April 10th | 4:00 pm — 6:00 pm
Reception to
Registration: www.wcl.american.edu/secle/cle_form.cfm
The Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at the American University Washington College of Law and the Center for Social Media at the American University School of Communications, in collaboration with the DC Chapter of the Copyright Society of the USA, present a lively discussion on the implications of copyright law for makers of participatory media and the platforms on which it is displayed. The discussion will emphasize strategies to avoid or minimize risk of copyright liability. Panelists will include:
Sarah B. Deutsch
Vice President & Assoc. General Counsel
Verizon
Alec French
Senior Counsel, Gov’t Relations
NBC Universal, Inc.
Fred von Lohmann
Sr. Staff Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Steve Tapia
Sr. Attorney, Law & Corp. Affairs
Microsoft
Mike Remington
Partner
Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP
This event is open to the public. Your registration is appreciated to help our planning of the public reception following the panel. Registration, however, is not required to attend.
Registration
www.wcl.american.edu/secle/cle_form.cfm
Webcast
3rd International Digital Curation Conference 2007
