Student Ingenuity Knows No Bounds ...

The Register reports that Napster has gained 143,000 novel subscribers inwards the yesteryear quarter, making a grand full of 410,000. Nearly a 3rd of Napster's USA subscribers (56,000) are at universities - which agency that the company's strategy of marketing towards colleges is succeeding. H5N1 Register mole has patently revealed that she as well as about of her pupil pals portion a unmarried Napster describe of piece of occupation concern human relationship to bring down the damage of subscribing. Apparently it's a relatively mutual exercise for 1 mortal to pay for the £9.95 per calendar month Napster account, distributing the username as well as password with several others. Our contact couldn't recollect just how many people she'd given the details to, but stated that she knew for for certain at to the lowest degree 2 other people who used her describe of piece of occupation concern human relationship on a regular basis. Napster says this can't tumble out as well as that the simultaneous purpose yesteryear 2 people of the same describe of piece of occupation concern human relationship details volition number inwards the previous user beingness logged out inside v minutes ...

Napster: music downloads for the coolest cats

has bully admiration for students' efforts to salvage money. Knowing how expensive their text books are, thank y'all to the massive royalties paid to their authors, they are jump to brand every endeavor to bring down their outgoings elsewhere.

More on students sharing here and here
How to cheat here and here

Student sharing: tin ameliorate the functioning of under-achievers ...

Death Of Patents

Peter Drahos: has edited a provocative bundle of essays

Death of Patents is a novel collection of essays inward the Perspectives on Intellectual Property Law in addition to Policy series, published past times Lawtext Publishing Ltd for the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute. Edited past times Australian scholar in addition to one-time QM Herchel Smith Senior Research Fellow Peter Drahos, this collection of essays is quite provocative in addition to demands of its readers that they continue an opened upwardly heed piece reading about fabric that they may respect profoundly detrimental to their preconceived notions. On sale at £35, the book's contents are equally follows:

Chapter 1 - Death of a Patent System - Introduction
Peter Drahos, Australian National University, Canberra

Chapter two - Schrodinger's Cat: An Observation on Modern Patent Law
Dr Margaret Llewelyn, Reader inward Intellectual Property Law, in addition to Deputy Director, Sheffield Institute for Biotechnology Law in addition to Ethics (SIBLE), University of Sheffield

Chapter iii - H5N1 Neuropsychological Analysis of the Law of Obviousness
Lachlan S. James, Innovation Capital, Sydney Australia

Chapter four - On Proprietary Rights in addition to Personal Liberties: Constitutional Responses to Post-Industrial Patenting
John R Thomas, Associate Professor of Law, George Washington University

Chapter five - Shifts inward India's Policy on Intellectual Property: The Role of Ideas, Coercion in addition to Changing Interests
Anitha Ramanna, Lecturer at the Department of Politics in addition to Public Administration, University of Pune, India

Chapter half-dozen - The Ethics of Patenting - Uneasy Justifications
Sigrid Sterckx, Senior Lecturer Research Fellow, Ghent University in addition to Part fourth dimension Professor, University of Antwerp

Chapter seven - Legal in addition to Ethical Aspects of Bio-Patenting: Critical Analysis of European Union Biotechnology Directive
Geertui Van Overwalle, MD Iur; Professor of Law at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in addition to at the Universite de Liege

Chapter viii - Is the World Ready for Substantive Patent Law Harmonisation? H5N1 lesson from History
Graham Dutfield, Herchel Smith Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary Intellectual Property Institute

says y'all tin actually relish this piddling book. It shows how dangerously blinkered (though non necessarily wrong) a traditional patent lawyer's stance of the patent arrangement tin be. Merpel adds, "I don't understand. If patent systems are dying, how come upwardly everyone seems to last making in addition to hence much role of them in addition to they're to a greater extent than pop than ever?". "In that case", says the IPKat, "do whatsoever of our readers fancy getting involved inward a novel collection of essays called Life of Patents? If so, allow him know.

Hits on Slashdot for "death of patents" here

Ip: On Its Holidays Til Half Dozen May

The UK Patent Office has suspended its Media Centre service until afterward the UK General Election on five May 2005. wants to know why. Are all the Patent Office PR people needed on the front end describe of piece of occupation of the election or is IP as well as then controversial that the Patent Office can’t say anything without prejudicing the election results?

: ever scrupulously fair here, here, here as well as here

Community Blueprint Verbalize This Monday

This coming Mon lunchtime, David Musker, a partner at Jenkins IP, volition endure speaking virtually the novel Community blueprint government at Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute. David is the writer of a leading work on the bailiwick in addition to the utter promises to endure really informative.


David Musker, thinking virtually what to tell on Monday

says that anyone who wants to come upwardly is welcome in addition to there’s no charge, precisely delight RSVP to i.r.simon@qmul.ac.uk, who volition transportation y'all details of the fourth dimension in addition to location.

Read all virtually the Community blueprint rights here.

Egypt's Overnice Invention For Merchandise Marks

WIPO has informed the IPKat that, every minute of eighteen June 2005, Arab Republic of Egypt volition live on giving final result to the Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods as well as Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks.

A page from an early on Egyptian merchandise score examiners' manual

Full text of Nice Agreement here
Nice countries here

Out Today! Copyright In Addition To Costless Speech

's friends Uma Suthersanen and Jonathan Griffiths teamed upward a yoke of years agone to run a really enjoyable conference on the theme of Copyright too Free Speech, the number of which is a railroad train of papers that convey been edited into a jolly practiced read. This morn these papers convey been nigh handsomely published past times Oxford University Press nether the championship Copyright too Free Speech: Comparative too International Analyses.

The OUP blurb reads:

"Written past times a squad of leading scholars too practitioners inwards the fields of copyright too complimentary speech, this operate analyses the potential for interaction too conflict betwixt the 2 rights".

likes this, though modesty prevents him mentioning that co-author Jeremy is i of the contributors (if yous desire to know what his thoughts are on the human relationship of sui generis database correct to complimentary speech, yous tin commence reading backwards from the end, since his is the final chapter ...)

The contents are equally follows:

Lord Justice Jacob: Preface
1 Jonathan Griffiths too Uma Suthersanen: Introduction

Part A: Mapping the Conflict
2 Eric Barendt: Copyright too complimentary phonation communication theory
3 Fiona Macmillan: Commodification too cultural ownership
4 Wendy Gordon: Copyright norms too the occupation of soul censorship
5 Uma Suthersanen: Towards an international populace involvement rule? Human rights too international copyright law

Part B: National Perspectives
6 Neil Netanel: Copyright too the First Amendment
7 Gerald Dworkin: Copyright, the populace involvement too liberty of speech
8 Kevin Garnett QC: The affect of the Human Rights Act 1998 on Great Britain copyright law
9 Jonathan Griffiths: Not such a 'timid thing' - the UK's integrity correct too liberty of expression
10 Ysolde Gendreau: Canadian copyright police describe too its Charters
11 Robert Burrell too James Stellios: Copyright too liberty of political communication inwards Australia
12 Alain Strowel too François Tulken: Freedom of aspect too copyright nether the civil law
13 Mira Sundara Rajan: Copyright too complimentary phonation communication inwards transition: the Russian experience

Part C: The Digital World
14 Raymond T. Nimmer: First Amendment phonation communication too the Digital Millennium Copyright Act: a proper marriage
15 Thomas Dreier: Contracting out of copyright inwards the Information Society - the affect on liberty of expression
16 Jeremy Phillips: Databases, the Human Rights Act too European Union law

Weighing inwards at 480 pages (inclusive of those at the showtime alongside Roman numerals, which the IPKat unremarkably skips), this hardback costs £75.00. It's a venture too thoughtful European-originating perspective on a dependent plain in i lawsuit idea to move the sole save of States jurisprudence. Go out too purchase it.

Us Copyright Straightaway Lasts Forever!

Law.com reports on a U.S. illustration that could possess got serious implications for the musical populace domain. In the 1930s, EMI’s predecessor produced recordings of performances yesteryear cellist Pablo Casals, pianist Edwin Fischer together with violinist Yehudi Menuhin. The exclusive rights to exploit these recording inward the U.S. was given to Capitol Records. The copyright inward the UK, where the recordings were made, expired subsequently 50 years together with inward the US, Naxos issued remastered versions. Capitol objected. Even though the U.K. copyright had expired, Capitol relied on its mutual police pull copyright. This tactic was unsuccessful earlier the District Court, only succeeded earlier the Court of Appeals. Because New York had no performers rights legislation earlier 1972, recordings made earlier that appointment are protected yesteryear mutual police pull copyright protection. Unlike statutory protection, mutual police pull copyright is perpetual. This agency it continues, fifty-fifty subsequently unusual copyright has expired. However, mutual police pull copyright volition hold out pre-empted inward 2067 yesteryear the Sonny Bono Act. Comentators possess got pointed out that this agency that ALL recording made earlier 1972 would give-up the ghost mutual police pull copyright protection inward New York. This could possess got serious chilling effects.

points out that at that spot is no mutual police pull copyright inward the UK, only the fact that this illustration has taken house inward a jurisdiction every bit of import every bit New York together with covers unusual recordings may good hateful that it has knock-on effects inward the UK.

More perpetual rights here