Something To Read This Weekend

July-August Copyright World

The electrical flow termination of Informa's colourful Copyright World has only reached the IPKat. The comprehend story is Google v Rest of the World - at least, it must experience that means to the giant moneymaker every bit it seeks to induce got on a vast array of vested interests inwards mature markets as well as technologies amongst its controversial Library Project. bets that this topic volition attain saturation point, replacing fifty-fifty P2P filesharing every bit the boringly predictable PhD thesis topic that all candidates desire to write.

Full listing of contents here. Merpel's Must-Read: "Into the Honey Trap?", where the Copyright Terminator meets Winnie the Pooh.


July-August MIP

The July-August termination of Euromoney's Managing Intellectual Property lists the 50 close influential IP personalities of the year. Alas, afterwards the excitement of making the listing concluding fourth dimension round, the IPKat has been consigned to the gloomy depths of oblivion. The existent significance of this listing is that close people who appear on it directly induce got an unreal expectation that others volition endure able to land their names correctly.

Full listing of contents here. Merpel's Must-Read: "Einstein's Lesson inwards Mediation".


August EIPR

Its comprehend may non endure as well as hence sexy, but the European Intellectual Property Review's publishers will state yous that it's what's nether the comprehend that counts. The contents of the August termination - commendably published ahead of the comprehend appointment - are non nevertheless readable online. However, the IPKat has been taking a peek as well as tin state yous that Christopher Wadlow is serialising what looks similar a magisterial concern human relationship of the evolution of unfair contest police line inwards the European Union.

Merpel's Must-Read: Kamiel Koelman's stimulating as well as provocative Opinion on the repair of deficiencies inwards the Berne Convention's "three-step" exam for defences to copyright infringement.