Le 2013-01-30 13:12, Richard Symonds a écrit :
Very interesting things happening in Antigua and the
US:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21247683
Essentially, the World Trade Organization (WTO) have ruled that the
islands
have the right to suspend US intellectual property rights. It all
stems
from a trade dispute in 2003, where the US effectively banned
electronic
interstate gambling, which in turn damaged Antigua's economy."
This has led to one thing and another, and "...on Monday the WTO's
dispute
settlement body gave final authorisation for Antigua to sell movies,
music,
games and software via a store that would be able to ignore US
copyright
and trademark claims."
Relevant parts on limits are:
"It later agreed a compensation packages with other WTO members, but
Antigua held out demanding $3.44bn (£2.2bn) of compensation a year. In
2007 the WTO awarded it the right to waive intellectual property rights
worth up to the smaller sum of $21m a year. On Monday the WTO's dispute
settlement body gave final authorisation for Antigua to sell movies,
music, games and software via a store that would be able to ignore US
copyright and trademark claim"
I wonder how they will evaluate things.
I'm not sure what this means for the movement -
I'm sure there will
be a
long and lively discussion - but it's a very interesting turn of
events in
IP law.
Well, on the one hand wikimedia host works in US, on the other hand,
how many works/articles hosted by wikimedia whom all authors are US
citizens can you find? As I understand it, they can't ignore
international copyrights.