Latest Mip; Community Swallows The World

Latest MIP

's Dec 2005/January 2006 Managing Intellectual Property arrived somewhat battered this morning, the envelope beingness held together amongst quantities of transparent adhesive tape. Was this, perchance, the postmen's revenge for his comments on yesterday's blog? Or was it a vindication of his seat on the competence of the postal service?

Editor James Nurton (right) has seat together a virtually enjoyable Christmas/New Year issue. Features which the IPKat specially enjoyed were

* House journalist Sam Mamoudi's "Research to Riches", the minute eulogy on the Bayh-Dole Act to move published inward the past times month, the other appearing inward IAM;

* the article past times Adelaide Yu (Rouse & Co, Hong Kong, left) on the purpose of confusing 'shadow names' incorporating famous merchandise marks, coupled amongst a slice past times Hitachi's Yukie Endo on how her fellowship deals amongst this practice;

* the description past times Lara Haidar (right) of The Rights Lawyers of the Middle East beingness inward the midst of a franchising frenzy, every bit investment inward the licensing of describe organisation formats gathers pace;

* (how embarrassing to mention...) the revised version of co-blogmeister Jeremy's ECTA newspaper finally summertime on the foreign merchandise grade laws together with practices of the mythical inhabitants of Atlantis. The exclusively argue why he laughs at his ain jokes is that he forgets them together with then shortly afterward he writes them.

Merpel adds, exclusively a pedant or a merchandise grade freak would write "transparent adhesive tape" when nosotros all know that the proper English linguistic communication give-and-take is sellotape ... (scotch record inward American).

More on Sellotape here
Why is Scotch Tape called Scotch Tape? Click here to discovery out.
The existent legend of Atlantis here


European Community swallows the World Treaties

's well-informed together with scholarly friend Phillip Johnson tells him:

"In illustration you lot are non aware, the World Performances together with Phonograms Treaty and the World Copyright Treaty have been specified every bit Community treaties past times The [UK] European Communities (Definition of Treaties) (WIPO Copyright Treaty together with WIPO Performances together with Phonograms Treaty) Order 2005 (SI 2005/3431).

This agency that those Treaties tin move implemented [in the UK] nether department 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972. In particular, it agency that provisions tin move made to give resultant to performers' moral rights. The Regulations making that provision are available inward draft online. The concluding Regulations volition convey to move made shortly to avoid breaching the 21 hateful solar daytime dominion (as the Regulations are due to come upward into forcefulness on ane Feb 2006)".

Many thanks, Phill, for keeping the Kat on his toes. But it does seem foreign that a basis treaty is specified every bit Community legislation ...