www.vn.nl > Janneke Juffermans
Het westerse egoïsme in de slag om vaccins kan ons nog duur komen te staan
12 apr. 2021 - ‘Toen de wereld van de internationale gezondheidszorg vorig jaar aan het begin van de pandemie bijeenkwam in Genève, zagen we het al aankomen,’ vertelt jurist en expert op het gebied van geneesmiddelenbeleid en intellectueel eigendomsrecht Ellen ’t Hoen aan de telefoon. ‘De rijke landen zouden de vaccins opkopen en de armere landen zouden het nakijken hebben.’ Ondanks de lessen uit het verleden, zoals tijdens de aidspandemie, zou men weer in dezelfde Pavlovreactie schieten, zo werd verwacht.
 · covid-19 · india · inequality · intellectual-property · patents · south-africa · vaccination

theintercept.com > Lee Fang
Biden’s Inner Circle Maintains Close Ties to Vaccine Makers, Disclosures Reveal
24 mar. 2021 - As concerns grow about a global “vaccine apartheid,” watchdogs worry that the Biden administration is primed to favor profits over people.
 · covid-19 · intellectual-property · united-states · vaccination

copyrightandtechnology.com > Bill Rosenblatt
Are NFTs DRM by Another Name?
15 mar. 2021 - Twenty years ago, when the first generation of DRM technologies hit the market, one of the benefits they touted was that with DRM-packaged files, consumers could be sure that they were getting the genuine content from the source. For example, if the content was a scientific journal article with research results, they could be confident that it wasn’t altered. Nobody remembers this, because nobody cared.
 · blockchain · copyright · digital-art · drm · intellectual-property · music · nft-s

eliterate.us > Michael Feldstein
Moodle's Sanctimony on Openness is Moot
13 mar. 2021 - Phil Hill has a great post up on the latest chapter in the Moodle partner soap opera.
 · blackboard · free-software · intellectual-property · moodle · open-source

artreview.com > Kenan Malik
Kenan Malik on cultural appropriation
1 dec. 2017 - Maqbool Fida Husain is perhaps India’s greatest artist of the twentieth century. His work linked ancient and modern traditions and helped transform Indian modernism. But not everyone appreciated Husain’s work. His depictions of Hindu deities, often naked, outraged Hindu nationalists who questioned his right, as someone of Muslim background, to depict figures sacred to Hindus, accusing him of ‘hurting religious feelings’. His home and gallery were ransacked, many of his paintings destroyed. He faced law suits, including ones for ‘promoting enmity between different groups’. The harassment spread beyond India’s borders. In 2006, London’s Asia House Gallery shut an exhibition of his work after protests and the defacement of two paintings. Husain, who died in 2011, was forced to live his last years in exile, in London and Qatar.
 · art · black-struggle · cultural-appropriation · gatekeeping · hinduism · identity · inequality · intellectual-property · respect

indianphilosophyblog.org > Amod Lele
In praise of cultural appropriation
28 feb. 2021 - Jay Garfield, Bryan Van Norden, and most of my colleagues here on the Indian Philosophy Blog are shamelessly committing massive acts of cultural appropriation. Perhaps I am too. And that’s a wonderful thing.
 · buddhism · cultural-appropriation · intellectual-property · miscegenation · philosophy · property

decorrespondent.nl > Ruben Mersch
Coronavaccins zijn te belangrijk om aan een handvol farmaceuten over te laten
26 feb. 2021 - Zo snel mogelijk iedereen vaccineren. Dat is de enige uitweg uit de coronacrisis. Maar vanwege internationale patentwetten worden er veel minder vaccins geproduceerd dan zou kunnen. De volksgezondheid zou zwaarder moeten wegen dan de belangen van een handvol farmaceuten.
 · big-pharma · brazil · covid-19 · healthcare · hiv-aids · india · intellectual-property · patents · public-goods · south-africa · united-states · vaccination

blog.coinfund.io > Jake Brukhman
All digital content is going on-chain
8 sep. 2020 - NFTs are not just cat pictures that people trade on blockchains, they are liquid intellectual property.
 · blockchain · intellectual-property · metaverse · non-fungible-tokens · rarible

decorrespondent.nl > Evgeny Morozov
Tegen dit verhaal over 5G kan geen samenzweringstheorie op
24 oct. 2020 - Amerika gaat de strijd aan met 5G-bouwer Huawei en andere Chinese technologiebedrijven. China’s antwoord: technologie bouwen die losstaat van de VS. En juist dat kan ervoor zorgen dat China technologisch veel geavanceerder en onafhankelijker uit deze handelsoorlog komt.
 · 5g · artificial-intelligence · china · de-americanization · dual-circulation · eu · export-controls · huawei · intellectual-property · nsa · patents · standardization · trade-wars · united-states

locusmag.com > Cory Doctorow
IP
7 sep. 2020 - You’ve probably heard of “open source software.” If you pay at­tention to the politics of this stuff, you might have heard of “free software” and even know a little about the ethical debate underpin­ning the war of words between these two labels. I’ve been involved since the last century, but even I never really understood what’s going on in the background until recently.
 · copyright · drm · fair-use · free-software · freedom · freedom-of-expression · google · intellectual-property · interoperability · monopolies · open-source · patents · power · standardization · switching-costs · trademarks