The US Trade Representative’s annual Special 301 Report repeatedly points out how other countries are “failing” US IP industries by not doing enough to prevent piracy. The “name and shame...
I realize that there are much bigger issues at hand right now, but those of us who follow copyright, patent and trademark policy have been somewhat perplexed about what a Trump administration mig...
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Two years ago, Techdirt noted the price that Switzerland paid for daring to suggest that unauthorized file-sharing really wasn’t such a problem: it was put on the USTR naughty step, aka the “...
We’ve talked plenty of times about what a complete joke the USTR’s Special 301 report is. It’s supposedly a “listing” of “naughty” countries who don’t protect intellectual propert...
For many years, we highlighted how Spain was a country that actually had much more reasonable copyright laws, in that it did not try to blame third-party tool makers for the actions of their user...
In this year’s Special 301 report, the United States Trade Representative listed Ukraine as a “Priority Foreign Country” (aka PFC), triggering a 30 day countdown to initiate an investigatio...
https://www.techdirt.com/2013/05/17/us-uses-special-301-to-bully-ukraine-likely-violating-wto/
Last week, when the USTR’s infamous Special 301 Report (pdf) came out, one of the things that I was most interested in was how the USTR would treat Germany. After all, back at the beginning of ...