Intellectual property law is good. Excess in intellectual property law is not. This blog is about excess in IP and related law. I have practiced law with prestigious firms and successfully acted for interveners in several important Supreme Court cases. I've also been in government & academe. My views are purely personal. Nothing on this blog should be taken as legal advice. I am a policy provocateur and currently not practising law. My email address is hknopf@gmail.com.
Significant international treaties will be submitted for votes in Parliament.Now, what does that mean? I shall try to find out.
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I think that the Conservatives would appreciate being reminded that the thinking in the 1996 WIPO treaties (Make copyright more complex, treat the owners of technology as the attackers of that technology, etc) primarily came out of the 1995 US National Information Infrastructure conversations under Clinton. While protection of "Intellectual Property" is something Conservative support, I don't think that the 1996 treaties qualify as they are primarily anti-competitive (protect incumbent business models from innovators) and anti-real-property (protecting technical measures put on technology which the copyright holders don't own) in nature.
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