Intellectual Property Law

global minilinks for 2009-01-16

By danny

• Online Gamers in China To Register with Real Names
  No anonymity, even in MMORPGs.
• South African IP Bill locks down innovation
  Public sector innovators will have to hand over their ideas to be patented by the government.
• EU Privacy Watchdog: Protections Are Growing Weaker
  Data retention laws have weakened European privacy, says Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor.
• Piracy Tax for the UK?
  ISPs and rightsholders will be asked to pay a tariff for a Net "Rights Agency" that collect and hand over personal data on repeat infringers in the UK, says the FT.
• Vodafone's Child Porn Filter Blocks Innocent Czech Tech Blogs
  Czech users report that innocent sites are being caught up in a cellphone website blacklist.
• Anti-Censorship Proxies Selling Data About Users
  DynaWeb FreeGate, GPass, and FirePhoenix all aggregate data on their customers and sell the information on commercially, says Berkman's Hal Roberts.
• A Study of the Internet Censorship in China
  One blocked Chinese citizen experiments with the Great Firewall.

Full post as published by Electronic Freedom Foundation - Deep Links on January 16, 2009 (boomark / email).