Matthew Lasar, ArsTechnica.com; US goes after movie pirates in Estonia, counterfeiters in Tanzania:
"As we've reported, the White House released its Joint Strategic Plan for intellectual property enforcement this week, courtesy of its new "IP Czar," Victoria Espinel. Vice President Joe Biden was at the press conference to grab the sound bite crown:
"Look, we used to avoid saying this in this town... Piracy is theft," Biden declared. "Clean and simple. It's nothing but theft."
But the report itself shuns the limelight—as well as recommendations like government-mandated website blocking and three strikes rules, we're happy to note. Instead it cautiously urges the government to avoid buying counterfeit items, and to be more transparent in its IP enforcement policies.
All this got us wondering, though: what's the government already doing about this stuff? Turns out the US was all over the world in the last year, spending tax dollars on IP enforcement in all sorts of ways."
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/06/meet-uncle-sams-global-ip-enforcement-team.ars
Issues and developments related to IP, AI, and OM, examined in the IP and tech ethics graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology", coming in Summer 2025, includes major chapters on IP, AI, OM, and other emerging technologies (IoT, drones, robots, autonomous vehicles, VR/AR). Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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