A recent post on copyriot.se criticizes the balancing of copyright rights and privacy rights against one another, arguing that positioning two individual rights against one another is not necessarily fruitful.

Collective

Last week I was in Seoul, Republic of Korea. I had been invited by two representatives of the Korean NGO IPLeft to discuss and talk about the Pirate Party, our role in European governance and the possibilities or outlooks for an Asian Pirate Party movement along the lines of what we see in Europe.

Under ett par dagar har jag och Simon Rosenqvist diskuterat kort- eller kontantbetalningar här på bloggen. Simons argument är att förespråkande av anonyma betalningsmetoder som kontanter är teknikfientliga och skriver vidare:

I've always felt that a key point in understanding the European Union's bilateral relations with third world countries, is knowing the Bananas I-III conflicts at the WTO (World Trade Organisation Dispute Settlement Body). In essence, Ecuador and the US felt that the EU was discriminating their bananas by applying favourable terms for banana imports from former colonial areas. They were right, and the EU admitted, and afterwards 13 years of conflicts over the size of damages have ensued.

This post is structured accordingly for your convenience: (1) Introductory quote, (2) present patent law and implications for small and medium-sized enterprises with examples, (3) transferral of regulation from one part of the ACTA agreement to another and the potential effects on international arbitration regarding the agreement.

Ralph Bendrath from the European Parliament tweeted about latest briefings from the ACTA negotiations a couple of hours ago:

I dedicate this post 22ppl.

I'm listening to Larry Saunders & Veronica Maggio and Radiohead & Evanescence, two duplets that for parts sound virtually the same.

Well. More later.

Ienglish furder down.

Någon har frågat mig om jag har mer information om romerna, och det har jag ju. Det har faktiskt hänt en hel del de senaste dagarna:

Trademarks are strange beasts. The last couple of days, the Wikileaks brand has been under attack in international media. Similarly the the Swedish system of justice.

För bekvämlighetens skull har jag strukturerat inlägget som följer: Bakgrund, byråkratisk utveckling senaste året, och vad som behöver hända nu för att situationen ska klaras upp så snart som möjligt.

Anvazher på Twitter påminde mig igår försiktigt om att jag borde skriva om Lissabonsituationen. Om ungefär tre veckor kommer det fattas ett beslut som avgör hela min framtid, så det kanske börjar bli dags.