{"id":137,"date":"2006-12-06T16:39:49","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T13:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2018-12-28T17:07:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T00:07:54","slug":"a-sensible-proposition-for-ip-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"A sensible proposition for IP reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the UK,  the much-hyped <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk\/media\/53F\/C8\/pbr06_gowers_report_755.pdf\">Gowers review of Intellectual Property<\/a> has been published. In a quick review, I spotted two highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> In pages 48-57 the report puts forth the most profound critique of copyright term extensions so far<\/li>\n<li> In pages 66-68 the report recommends &#8220;transformative use&#8221; as a new exception to EU copyright directive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The report also includes expected recommendations for private copying, orphan works etc. The report sees patent regime in more positive light compared to copyright, although there is a critique of software patents in place. Overall, the report is a required reading for anyone interested in the problems of contemporary intellectual property law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the UK, the much-hyped Gowers review of Intellectual Property has been published. In a quick review, I spotted two highlights: In pages 48-57 the report puts forth the most profound critique of copyright term extensions so far In pages 66-68 the report recommends &#8220;transformative use&#8221; as a new exception to EU copyright directive The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/?p=137\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A sensible proposition for IP reform&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-economy","category-law","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1921,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/1921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}