No consensus on role of governments in Internet governance
Richard Hill’s analysis of the 187 contributions to NETMundial show that there is no consensus on whether governments should have equal status with other stakeholders in control of the Internet. Other findings of the analysis include: there is broad support for: improving security; ensuring respect for privacy; ensuring freedom of expression; globalizing the IANA function there ... Read the full post ...
UN welcomes US relinquishing Internet DNS control
The UN Secretary General and head of the UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have praised the US government’s decision to relinquish its remaining control over the Internet domain name system (DNS). In his statement, the ITU Secretary-General expressed a desire for “development of the appropriate mechanisms which will ensure fair, equitable and inclusive management of ... Read the full post ...
New gTLDs are disruptive to trademark protection, says WIPO
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) believes the roll-out of 1,400 new gTLDs will disrupt strategies for trademark protection on the web. In an announcement on the expansion of the domain name space, the WIPO Director General said the proliferation of potential web addresses “will force trademark owners to adjust their priorities in terms of ... Read the full post ...
UK to introduce ‘.uk’ domain names
Nominet, the company responsible for the .uk ccTLD, will introduce registrations at the 2nd level from 10 June 2014 – meaning that registrations of <brand.uk> will be available, alongside registrations such as <brand.co.uk> and <brand.org.uk>. Existing registrations at the 3rd level will continue to function as normal. However, the owners of existing 3rd level registrations ... Read the full post ...
US to relinquish responsibility for regulation of Internet domain name system
The US government has stated it will transition key Internet domain name functions to the “global multistakeholder community”. In the historic announcement, the US Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has asked the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to “convene global stakeholders to develop a proposal” to take over the ... Read the full post ...
Privatize, don’t internationalise, Internet oversight, academics say
Instead of internationalising government control of the Internet by moving oversight from the US Commerce Department to a more inclusive body of governments, two US academics recommend privatisation. Read the IP Watch report on the proposal of Prof. Milton Mueller and Brenden Kuerbis of Syracuse University, experts in internet governance issues,to the forthcoming NetMundial conference in Brazil. ... Read the full post ...
UNCTAD Internet Governance discussion: an insider’s view on why it failed
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation (WGEC) held what was supposed to be its last meeting in Geneva on 24-28 February, but failed to agree certain key issues so it will meet again on 7-9 May As Richard Hill for IP Watch explains, the WGEC were difficult, and it proved ... Read the full post ...
No copyright infringement by linking unless access provided to a ‘new public’, says EU Court
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that there is no infringement in providing a link to another’s copyright work, unless it is provides access to an audience that the copyright owner had restricted from accessing the work. ... Read the full post ...
US urges no radical revision of Internet governance
The US government has urged an upcoming forum on Internet governance “to avoid excessive deliberation on issues known to divide participants”, especially the reach or limitations of state sovereignty in Internet policy. The forum, the Global Multi-stakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance (‘Netmundial’), takes place in Brazil in late February 2014. According to the US ... Read the full post ...
European Parliament urged to strengthen Net neutrality
Public service media organisations have joined with online content and software providers to urge the European Parliament to strengthen rules on net neutrality in its draft Single Telecoms Package Regulation. IP Watch reports that the media organisations and content providers oppose current provisions that allow ISPs to provide ‘specialised’ services running on different bandwidths in parallel to the open ... Read the full post ...
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