Intellectual Property Watch; ACTA Text Revealed To 42 Select Insiders:
"In the weeks leading up to the next negotiating session (first week of November in Seoul) of the secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, 42 Washington, DC-area insiders, mostly from industry, were invited by the United States Trade Representatives to see copies of its text on the internet, according to a new report.
In response to a Freedom of Information Act request to the USTR, think-tank Knowledge Ecology International received copies [pdf] of the non-disclosure agreements the insiders signed prior to viewing the ACTA text.
The list included several members of software industry group the Business Software Alliance, online auction site eBay, internet media giant Google, conservative media conglomerate News Corporation, and nongovernmental group Public Knowledge, among others.
A full list of names of those who saw the draft, and their affiliations, is available on the KEI website here."
http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/10/15/acta-text-revealed-to-42-select-insiders/
Showing posts with label eBay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eBay. Show all posts
Monday, October 19, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Skype Founders File Copyright Suit Against eBay; New York Times, 9/17/09
Brad Stone, New York Times; Skype Founders File Copyright Suit Against eBay:
"Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who became billionaires after selling Skype to eBay in 2005, filed a copyright lawsuit on Wednesday against Skype in the United States District Court of Northern California. The suit comes a little more than two weeks after eBay announced it would sell most of Skype for $1.9 billion to a consortium of investors led by the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners.
In the court filing, Joltid, a company owned by the Skype founders, claims that eBay violated copyright law by altering and sharing the peer-to-peer source code behind the free Internet calling service. The Skype founders maintained ownership of that source code after selling Skype to eBay in 2005, and licensed it to eBay.
Joltid seeks an injunction and statutory damages, which it says could total more than $75 million a day."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/technology/companies/17skype.html
"Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who became billionaires after selling Skype to eBay in 2005, filed a copyright lawsuit on Wednesday against Skype in the United States District Court of Northern California. The suit comes a little more than two weeks after eBay announced it would sell most of Skype for $1.9 billion to a consortium of investors led by the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners.
In the court filing, Joltid, a company owned by the Skype founders, claims that eBay violated copyright law by altering and sharing the peer-to-peer source code behind the free Internet calling service. The Skype founders maintained ownership of that source code after selling Skype to eBay in 2005, and licensed it to eBay.
Joltid seeks an injunction and statutory damages, which it says could total more than $75 million a day."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/technology/companies/17skype.html
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)