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Tuesday, 15 November 2016

Calling IP publishers and Editors

Patricia Covarrubia November 15, 2016 No comments:

Our colleagues from the Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice (JIPLP) announced on its blog 'the' IP Publishers and Editors Lunch 2016. The invitation is open to everyone who is involved in writing, editing or publishing in the topic of IP. It includes bloggers, authors, reviewers, editors, and publishers.

The lunch will take place on Friday 25 November, from 12.30 pm to 2.30 pm at Veale Wasbrough Vizards, London. It is free of charge but you would need to register for the event (please go to the original source here). Moreover, Stefanno Barazza is happy to speak to you via e-mail if you are not sure if you are eligible to attend.

At the meeting Mr Jaani Riordan (8 New Square) will be discussing hyperlinking and the implications for publishers. The meeting is bound to have an excellent time and atmosphere for networking.

I will be attending and hopefully will see some familiar faces that I know of just virtually.

Thanks for the event guys.

New Year new blog =)

Patricia Covarrubia January 05, 2012 No comments:

The University of Buckingham in its Daily Mail writes the following:

Dr Patricia Covarrubia [ok tangueros, you can call me Patricia] had the inspiration to start another blog-- this one focusing on indigenous rights and intellectual property issues that often arise in issues of indigenous rights. Dr Covarrubia got this idea following on from the Roundtable Conference on The Emerging Landscape of Indigenous Rights. This conference took place on 4 October 2011, at the University of Buckingham and was an event of the Centre for Multi-Cultural Research on Law and the Family. Dr Sarah Sargent was instrumental in conceiving the idea for the conference and in arranging a panel of international speakers. The speakers addressed a wide range of issues through which indigenous rights might be involved, including international economic and development law, cultural heritage, family law, land rights and international treaty law, as well as intellectual property. The new blog builds on the success of and the interest generated from the October 2011 conference.

Dr Covarrubia and Dr Sargent co-manage the new blog, TK Totem. http://tktotem.blogspot.com/ The blog focuses on indigenous rights, and issues such as traditional knowledge, intellectual property, land rights and human rights. The blog is important as a means of communicating about contemporary indigenous issues, and reaching a worldwide audience. Many issues do not receive other than local attention, and it can be difficult for instance to learn about issues occurring in Central and South America, Asia, and Africa, where issues do not receive a great deal of media attention. Additionally, the blog is a means of communicating with researchers and scholars around the world.

[tha's me! after x-mas]

You can pay a visit to the blog [of course free of charge] here. Comments and subscriptions are more than welcome.

Chile: administradores de sitios web podrían ser responsabilizados por ofensas cometidas a través de Internet

Aurelio Lopez-Tarruella Martinez August 31, 2010 1 comment:

En 2009 un “troll” provocó que la justicia brasilera condenara al bloguero Emilio Moreno a pagar más 8 mil dólares por un post anónimo calificado de ofensivo por el tribunal, dirigido en contra de una monja. Si hoy uno revisa el blog, podrá ver que está fuera de servicio.

Tal vez inspirados en este caso el 27 de agosto los senadores chilenos Pedro Muñoz, Camilo Escalona y Carlos Bianchi presentaron un proyecto de ley relativo a las responsabilidades civiles derivadas de los insultos y agravios cometidos a través del ciberespacio con el fin de colmar una laguna del sistema jurídico chileno relativa a la falta de posibilidades efectivas de persecución de responsabilidades civiles de los causantes del daño al honor a través de Internet, pues generalmente se ven amparados en el anonimato.

La iniciativa fue remitida a la Comisión de Constitución para su estudio pues modifica la legislación vigente estableciendo que "quienes difundan a través de Internet contenidos u expresiones ofensivas al honor y la honra de una persona serán responsables civilmente de los daños y perjuicios que ocasionen". Lo más destacable (y discutible) del Proyecto es que dispone que en los casos en que no pueda determinarse quien es el autor material de dicha acción (lo que será lo habitual), la "responsabilidad recaerá en los administradores de los respectivos sitios", como ocurrió con el caso del bloguero de Brasil. Pero, como es esperable, la iniciativa legal contiene una excepción, más bien aparente, pues libera de dicha responsabilidad a los administradores que puedan "eximirse acreditando que han identificado en forma fidedigna al autor de las ofensas y éste no ha podido ser habido por causas que no les sean imputables o que han procurado, con celo, evitar la difusión de aquéllas", lo que en la práctica los transforma en responsables solidarios, aunque el Proyecto les otorga la calidad de subsidiarios de la pretensión.

Esta iniciativa postula que la acción civil para obtener la indemnización por daños se regirá por las reglas generales del derecho civil, y se entenderá emprendida en forma subsidiaria contra el administrador respectivo, comprendiendo el daño emergente, el lucro cesante y el daño moral.

Los autores basan su iniciativa legal en que Internet, como muchos otros avances de la humanidad, concebidos con fines benéficos y utilizados de ese modo en la inmensa mayoría de los casos, puede prestarse, también, para conductas inapropiadas que pueden lesionar el honor y la privacidad de las personas, teniendo como escenario, en la mayoría de los casos, foros o sitios de Internet, donde muchas personas se amparan en el anonimato existente en la red y en las dificultades para dar con el paradero de quienes la utilizan con estos fines. Con esta idea pretenden además atacar el denominado "cyber-bullying" o las agresiones ocurridas a través de medios informáticos especialmente entre colegiales, las que ocasionan graves daños psicológicos a los menores.

Este Proyecto debe relacionarse con la recién aprobada Ley 20.453 que consagra el Principio de neutralidad en la red para los consumidores y usuarios de Internet , que modificó la Ley General de telecomunicaciones chilena, cuyo Reglamento de ejecución debe dictarse dentro de noventa días a contar del 26 de agosto, y que generará interpretaciones vinculadas a esta reciente iniciativa.

Prepared by Rodrigo Ramirez (Abogado de Ramos Pazos, Montecinos & Díez, Chile), posted by Aurelio

World Trademark Review (WTR) expands

Patricia Covarrubia April 14, 2010 No comments:

It is with pleasure that I announce the launch of a new IP blog by the WTR.
However, do not expect the usual blog addressing legal updates and case reports because you are going to be disappointed. As you know, the majority of IP blogs are written by practitioners and/or academics (some wannabes also), but this blog offers info written by proper IP journalist.

Adam Smith, reporter for the WTR explains: "For eight years WTR has covered the most important trademark stories of the day, and has broken some of the most significant trademark stories of recent times, from exclusive analysis of the ECJ's recent decision in the Google keywords case to news of how the top 100 globally protected trademark list has resurfaced on the domain name agenda. WTR has the independence and objectivity to supply readers with information they cannot find anywhere else: we can interview the parties involved in a dispute, press trademark offices for their positions and statistics, and gather insightful opinions through speaking with leading brand owners. Assimilating this means that our specialist trademark journalists can strike at the commercial heart of every development in trademarks. WTR's blog will therefore complement lawyers' blogs and present new dimensions to industry debates, as well as highlighting and linking to other industry content."

If you would like to receive the free blog, click here.

To read the blog, click here.

Some IPTango moves

* Listed as one of the "Best blogs on Intellectual and Industrial Property Law". The University of Alicante Intellectual Property & Information Technology Project (UAIPIT).

* One of the only two Latin American blog listed in the "Top 100 Intellectual Property Blogs". Feedspot, as of May 2021.

* Listed as one of the "Top 15 Blogs For An Intellectual Property (IP) Enthusiasts". Buzzfeed.com, January 2017.

* Listed as one of the "World's Best IP Blogs". BananaIP.com, December 2015.

* IPTango founder Professor Jeremy Phillips was listed as one of the Managing Intellectual Property magazine's "Fifty Most Influential People" of 2005, 2011, 2013, and 2014.

* Listed as one of the "Influential intellectual property blawgs". A Dictionary of Intellectual Property Law, Peter Groves, 2011.

* Listed as one of the "Communities of Blawgers". Los blogs jurídicos y la web 2.0. para la difusión y la enseñanza del derecho, Gonzalo Ramírez Cleves, 2010.