tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post217657697555482482..comments2024-03-28T16:45:51.051+00:00Comments on The IPKat: Get your IP act together, British MPs tell governmentVerónica RodrÃguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-5358304102401535262012-10-30T11:31:15.444+00:002012-10-30T11:31:15.444+00:00Free from important distractions? Unimportant dist...Free from important distractions? Unimportant distractions, surely? - Recommendation 1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-20405756083305323492012-10-30T09:14:46.351+00:002012-10-30T09:14:46.351+00:00Funny you mention Google. In this week's FOCUS...Funny you mention Google. In this week's FOCUS (German news weekly) is an article explaining how Google pays virtually no tax on its huge profits in Europe. The money it makes gets routed through IE and NL en route for Bermuda and then home. Be thankful for small mercies, it ain't HMG lettting them get away with it.MaxDreinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-10082161014938065422012-10-30T08:40:48.829+00:002012-10-30T08:40:48.829+00:00MaxDrei -
Samsung earned revenues $47.6bn in the...MaxDrei - <br /><br />Samsung earned revenues $47.6bn in the three months to September 30, with a profit of $7.4bn. <br /><br />Perhaps British companies could learn to "fail" like Korean companies "fail".<br /><br />Unfortunately HMG and Whitehall is only interested in making life easier for Google. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-61879126335749284942012-10-30T08:05:14.749+00:002012-10-30T08:05:14.749+00:00Did Mr Vleck have any free time to watch any TV wh...Did Mr Vleck have any free time to watch any TV while in Korea? If so, he might have seen something of the EPO's advertising campaign, currently running there. The EPO thinks advertising on Korean television is worth the money. How about on British TV?MaxDreinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-52186005578504876322012-10-29T23:53:12.974+00:002012-10-29T23:53:12.974+00:00The report is clearly a shot across the bows of th...The report is clearly a shot across the bows of the IPO, radical academics and lawyers who view copyright as a tedious regulation rather than a historical, and socially accepted property right. It really couldn't be clearer:<br /><br />2. The IPO should revert to seeing IP as a property right<br /><br />Jeremy opines:<br /><br />" [this particular Kat thinks this is a bit of an irrelevance: IP is whatever the European Union says it is. What's important is what it does in practice, not how we categorise it];"<br /><br />But this is a circular argument. <br /><br />How we (or Europe, or Berne) categorise copyright defines exactly how we use it. The moral and philosophical underpinning of law is not arbitary or temporary. <br /><br />If we wish to think of a creator's right as "property" (and we do), then this has qualities attached to it. We can trade property. We can withdraw our property from use by others. These are intrinsic qualities of the thing. When we describe IP as "property", we choose such words carefully. It is not temporary or contingent. <br /><br />Perhaps the Kat is falling into the trap of thinking of digital things as somehow special, and exceptional - digital 'bits' can not have property rights attached to them?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-88911861663825336842012-10-29T17:42:20.828+00:002012-10-29T17:42:20.828+00:00Well that was time wel spent.......not.Well that was time wel spent.......not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-64282526371130133562012-10-29T17:20:02.703+00:002012-10-29T17:20:02.703+00:00I was at the AIPPI conference in Korea which was o...I was at the AIPPI conference in Korea which was opened the week before last by the Korean Prime Minister who was accompanied by members of the Korean Presidential Council on Intelelctual Property. Bearing in mind that North Korea was going through one of its periodic bouts of threatening to fire shells over the border, the presence for over an hour of the Prime Minister was particualrly telling. <br /><br />Does anyone really believe that HMG takes IP as seriously as the Koreans and others? Whilst listening to the conference opening ceremony, I was wondering about the odds of getting a senior minister to open an IP conference in the UK. I suggest we all think they are low - perhaps that suggests something about the priority given to IP by HMG.Jan Vlecknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-2884675947309813082012-10-29T16:43:33.726+00:002012-10-29T16:43:33.726+00:00The term "intellectual property" is such...The term "intellectual property" is such a broad term and the different types of monopolies that are referred to as IP can be quite different in character.<br /><br />If anything, splitting the responsibilities up into clearly defined areas would be better than lumping them under one minister.Jack Allnutthttp://allnutt.eunoreply@blogger.com