Posts Tagged ‘oecd’

12/13/2011 Author:  ... Full story

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I'll be speaking on this workshop at the upcoming Internet Governance Forum in Vilnius and will also be speaking on a panel on online human rights and state responsibilities representing the Council of Europe. I'm very much looking forward to my first ... Full story

Pangloss just spent a very intense, very challenging day at the OECD Workshop on the Liability of 0nline Intermediaries, sadly curtailed by the need to rush off on a plane to Estonia (of which more anon). The idea was to kick off a major programme of w... Full story

The OECD has released new data on its global counterfeiting estimates, concluding that the share of counterfeit and pirated goods in world trade is estimated to have increased from 1.85% in 2000 to 1.95% in 2007.  That represents an increase to $250 billion worldwide.  That is obviously a big number, but notably far lower than the claims from ACTA supporters.  Copyright lobby groups have ... Full story

Professor Yochai Benkler has posted a response to some of the criticism of the FCC-commissioned Berkman study on broadband. Full story

The Globe reports that a new OECD report finds Canada pays among the highest wireless prices in the world. The OECD numbers say that for a “low-use” basket (defined as including 360 minutes of voice calls, 396 text messages and eight video messages per year), Canada ranked 20th most expensive out of 30 countries last year. For “medium-use” (780 voice minutes per year) Canada ... Full story

In recent months, much of the discussion about high-speed Internet service in Canada has focused on two key issues - net neutrality and the need to bring broadband access to the remaining underserved areas in rural Canada.  Both of these issues are now squarely on the public agenda with the CRTC conducting hearings on net neutrality next month and the government committing millions toward rural ... Full story

The Conference Board of Canada bills itself as "the foremost, independent, not-for-profit applied research organization in Canada. Objective and non-partisan. We do not lobby for specific interests."  These claims should take a major hit based on last week's release of a deceptive, plagiarized report on the digital economy that copied text from the ... Full story

BayTSP, a U.S. firm that identifies and tracks copyright content on behalf of major movie and music interests, has released its annual report on online trends (the study is not online, but they did send me a copy and Ars Technica, Torrent Freak, and P2PNet have reports).  The report is interesting ... Full story