Feb
18
Copyright cites
Posted by Dirk Avery at 12:26 pm under Copyright.
Copyright protection in the Egyptian Pyramids
The Egyptian government, wanting both to protect the country’s cultural heritage and to profit from manufactured souvenirs of Sphinxes etc., is considering expanding its intellectual-property laws to cover replicas of antiquities and monuments.
Motion Picture Association (MPA) sues Chinese P2P company (Xunlei) supported by Google (Download MPA press release here)
Narciso Rodriguez, designer of Carolyn Bessette’s wedding dress, went to Congress last week to support the Design Piracy Prohibition Act
[T]he Design Piracy Prohibition Act has been stuck in committee, unable to reach House and Senate floors because the fashion industry can’t agree on its language… The U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimates $12 billion in lost revenues to fashion counterfeiters and pirates in 2006, and Rodriguez said this is particularly significant considering the overhead cost of designing shmancy clothes.
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