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| Last Day to Enroll for Free WIPO Class on IP |
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Wednesday, August 31 2005 @ 10:55 AM EDT
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I wanted to remind you that today is the last day to sign up for WIPO's free class on what they call a general course on intellectual property. You enroll here, choosing the second title on the page, DL-101 General Course on Intellectual Property, which they describe like this:
Summary: This course covers the main areas of intellectual property, namely copyright, related rights, patents, trademarks, geographical indications, industrial design, plant breeders' rights, unfair competition and international registration systems.
Tutored: Yes
Duration: 50 hours
Cost: Free of Charge
Next Session: October-November 2005 (Enrollment will be available from July 1 to August 31) So hop on board, if the topic interests you. I must admit this is the first time I've ever been offered a course that includes a section on plant breeders' rights, and it doesn't have an immediate appeal, but the price is right, and I do want to understand WIPO's views on the subject of intellectual property, a phrase that I must tell you I find a bit offensive, after spending hours looking at the devastation in New Orleans and neighboring states, struck by how little real property and intellectual property have in common, and what a strained metaphor it really is.
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| Authored by: alisonken1 on Wednesday, August 31 2005 @ 11:14 AM EDT |
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- Ken -
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 31 2005 @ 11:22 AM EDT |
I wonder how many open source proponents will end up participating in this
course? The system requirements include Internet Explorer 5+ and Real Player.
It's also listed as requiring speakers, which leads me to believe (perhaps
unfairly) that it won't provide accessibility for those who are hearing
impaired.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 31 2005 @ 12:11 PM EDT |
| "a phrase that I must tell you I find a bit offensive, after spending hours
looking at the devastation in New Orleans and neighboring states, struck by how
little real property and intellectual property have in common, and what a
strained metaphor it really is"
Oh, how true that last is..
for many
years, numerous companies made quite a good living selling tv's radios etc, all
with the same, unpatented, controls & interfaces... competition, enabled by
the free use of ideas, drove the industry toward greater things.. the pc, &
therefore, internet, came out of this sharing of & building upon others
ideas.. & now, where will the future inovation come from?? "I've already
done one of those", "you can't make a better one"... is the new mentality.. how
sad, how rediculous..
meanwhile, in New Orleans, no money could be spent
to reinforce the dike system in the face of a force known to be greater than
that the system was designed for, resulting in many unneccessary deaths &
injuries, while much money is available to 'fix' it, after the (painful to the
people) fact. Why do we not learn?? What was Pete Seegers song?? "Where Have all
the Flowers Gone".. When willl we ever learn...
bobby
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 31 2005 @ 12:21 PM EDT |
It seems to me, many times, for those who make such a big
deal about it, that intellectual property is really an
oxymoron.
;)
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 31 2005 @ 12:28 PM EDT |
Technical requirements
* A computer connected to the Internet
* Internet Explorer 5 or higher
* Sound card and speakers
* Real Player software
* Adobe Acrobat Reader
Hmmm... wonder if Firefox on Linux is good enough... not sure about that
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 31 2005 @ 01:00 PM EDT |
When IP is brought up it seems to that any discussion about IP is like viewing
thru muddy waters. The Patent Office is run by folks who issue patents for
stupidly obvious ideas (that never should be awarded patents). Where is reason
and logic at the government levels? Have they all been promised jobs at
Microsoft when they leave government or what?
When Standards are brought up... we have companies competing to patent standards
so that they can "OWN" it all. They are dream of being monopolies
too... knowing that, like Microsoft, they will not be punished anymore for this
activity (instead they see rewards for this mindset).
Where are the days of a society that saw that water pipes and other liquid
piping technologies had different threading so that they would not work with
each other...! A few wise and brave men and women saw that there was a problem
that needed a solution, they stepped up into govenment and activated sensible
OPEN STANDARDS that all could then compete fairly by using. The National
Standard Thread was born from incompatibilites between pipes... the consumer and
competing providers benefited. Gone where the monopolies that were protected by
the use of one "patented" pipe thread that was used more than another!
We need the same open standard for all data, music, video, anything computer
related, today! Government needs to step up and enforce the use of Open
standards for formats and protocols, today! Government needs to outlaw monopoly
actions of companies that use IP protections to enslave their users to lives of
only using the "protected" and "OWNED" proprietary computer
technologies.
Where are those brave men and women TODAY that are somewhere in government who
will help us get accross the muddy IP waters to the promised lands of equal and
fair open standards that are not "OWNED" by anyone. Where are they?
Does anyone know of anyone in government that truely "gets" that this
is needed sooner rather than later?
Anyone's guess?
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| Authored by: richjob on Wednesday, August 31 2005 @ 04:19 PM EDT |
Site refuses to let me login, for some reason. Even though I'm registered.
Then again, it tells me that "your request for registration" went in.
Not that "I'm registered".
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 31 2005 @ 06:58 PM EDT |
Being a farmer, as well as a FOSS user, I can tell you that there are many
similarities between the software industry and the plant breeding industry, and
I can see why it is included in this course.
Seeds are one of the few things that are similar to software in that they are
easily copied (by growing a plant and harvesting the seeds and planting them
again the next year). Another similarity is that large seed companies (often
multi-national chemical companies) employ the same sort of monopolistic business
practices as Microsoft.
Here in Australia, years ago, breeding wheat used to be somewhat of an
open-source affair where the Dept of Agriculture used to breed new wheat
varieties, building on the work of previous plant breeders, and released them to
farmers to use how they wished.
Then came "plant breeders rights" where private companies sold you
wheat varieties, and while you could sell your wheat for food, you could not
sell it for the purpose of planting a new crop without paying a license fee.
Now we have "end user royalties". Plant breeding is a trade secret and
farmers pay a license fee on every tonne (ton) of grain they sell. So far I have
resisted growing varieties that have these fees :-)
Genetically Modified seeds bring even more software-like characteristics. GM
seeds are usually produced by large chemical companies and these crops are
resistant to the effects of a herbicide the company sells, the idea being that
you spray the crop with this herbicide and it kills all the weeds but not the
crop.
Of course you can ONLY use their herbicide with their GM crop. So seed companies
have finally perfected their own brand of vendor lock-in. Apparently one of the
stated aims of a large American chemical company was world domination of the
seed market. Genetic modification is the method by which they hope to achieve
it.
MS does not have a monopoly on creative business practices :-)
Peter
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 05 2005 @ 07:24 PM EDT |
"I must tell you I find a bit offensive, after spending hours looking at
the devastation in New Orleans and neighboring states, struck by how little real
property and intellectual property have in common."
I think many non-lawyers here will be as confused by the term "real
property" as lay-people are deceived by the notion of "intellectual
property." Real property derives from the French "real" or
"royal" and designates land and affixments which are considered as
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