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27.07.12 by Nicolas Seidler
Sujets: Public Policy
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The issue of Human Rights and the Internet has come to the forefront as a key issue in international policy discussions and as a source of opportunities, but also challenges, to users’ ability to exercise their rights online. On July 6 2012, the Human Rights Council wrapped up its 20th session in Geneva, dealing with these Internet-related issues. You may have read headlines about the Council...
25.07.12 by Karen Mulberry
Sujets: Public Policy
At its July meeting, the ITU Council referred several items to the ITU-T World Telecommunications Standardization Assembly (WTSA), they are: to define OTT as it relates to the Internet, address misuse of domain names, misuse of identifiers, and issues with ICANN and TLDs that concern Member States. These are all items that have also surfaced in WCIT ITR proposals and discussions over the past few...
25.07.12 by Sally Shipman Wentworth
Sujets: Public Policy
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meets next week in Vancouver, Canada (29 July – 03 August). As we did during the IETF 83 in Paris, the Internet Society will be hosting five public policy guests in Vancouver - this time from Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Guatemala, and Trinidad & Tobago. You can learn more about this program on page 28 of the recent IETF Journal. Our goal with...
23.07.12 by Constance Bommelaer, by Christine Runnegar
Sujets: Public Policy
Unlike other creators, audiovisual performers, including television and film actors, have not had the benefit of agreed international rules concerning the protection of their artistic work. This changes with the creation of the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances in 2012.
This June, representatives of countries from all over the world, actors, IP industry groups and other observer...
23.07.12 by Constance Bommelaer, by Christine Runnegar
Sujets: Public Policy
Unlike other creators, audiovisual performers, including television and film actors, have not had the benefit of agreed international rules concerning the protection of their artistic work. This changes with the creation of the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances in 2012.
This June, representatives of countries from all over the world, actors, IP industry groups and other observer...