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20 Mar 2009, 6:02 am
From this news item it can be seen that safeguarding the interests of brand owners is recognised as a matter of importance -- but it's safety at a cost.News from New Zealand comes via the ever-vigilant Howard ("Excess Copyright") Knopf, who has furnished the IPKat with a link suggesting  that the NZ government is prepared to repeal its controversial "three strikes" legislation for dealing with copyright-infringing internet users even before that… [read post]
16 Mar 2012, 9:27 am
  When he's not frittering away those long and idle hours of the workday in scouring the internet for amusing pictures of cats to send to Merpel, then emailing to find out why she hasn't posted them on the blog, the IPKat's friend Howard Knopf can turn his hand to some neat blogging, as his piece for Excess Copyright on the recent European ruling on the communication of free dental music. [read post]
19 Oct 2011, 1:28 am by Michael Geist
Update: Howard Knopf assesses the impact of this decision on Access Copyright's efforts tariff proposal that seeks compensation for linking to recommended or required readings. [read post]
8 Mar 2012, 4:54 pm by Chris Castle
Geist and another blog activist, Howard Knopf, reached what the association refers to as “an impasse. [read post]
2 Sep 2009, 3:09 am
*******************September 1, 2009Howard KnopfRoundtable Presentation Peterborough, Ontario(check against delivery)I am Howard Knopf. [read post]
15 May 2019, 3:49 pm by Howard Knopf
The Committee simply ignored the testimony of those with whom it disagreed, including, as Michael Geist points out, Professors Jeremy de Beer, Ariel Katz, Nick Mount, Meera Nair along with author Cory Doctorow and me, lawyer Howard Knopf. [read post]
5 Aug 2013, 6:53 am
Boxing Cats (drawn to the attention of this blogger by Howard Knopf of Excess Copyright fame) here How to be believed here Cat in a box here and (for intellectuals) here Queensberry Rules here Queensbury: a fascinating exercise in naming a locality in London, here [read post]
4 Apr 2014, 9:11 am
 Over in Canada, Katfriend Howard Knopf (Excess Copyright) takes time off from patrolling his usual territory of copyright law, reporting on the impending death of the excess Canadian hyphen -- the one that has blighted the spelling of "trade mark" or "trademark" as "trade-mark", as you can discover by reading here. [read post]
26 Nov 2013, 11:36 am by Howard Knopf
article=1001&context=researchI look forward to addressing the Honourable Members of this Committee, as I have done at several other Parliamentary Committees in various capacities in the past.Yours sincerely,Howard Knopf [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 6:42 am
Further, WIPO is about more than just normative activities -- its success does not depend solely on creating IP treaties.Next contribution from the audience came from Howard Knopf, who raised a topic that we'd all been wondering about: secrecy of negotiation. [read post]
8 Aug 2023, 11:18 am by Howard Knopf
. *** Howard Knopf is a policy provocateur who, after 43 years, is no longer “practising law”. [read post]
26 Feb 2018, 6:30 am by Michael Geist
The court will be asked to consider both the overpayment and the question of opting-out of the tariff for later years (Howard Knopf and Ariel Katz have written extensively about the issue), but the claim that this is an attack on writers is a remarkable distortion of the facts. [read post]
13 Feb 2015, 6:57 am by Michael Geist
More tellingly, the report itself was only publicly released after it was posted by Howard Knopf. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 2:54 pm
Until the Supreme Court rules definitively on the subject, and resolves the uncertainties and disparities now pervading this area of the law, purveyors of foreign-made goods should adopt the mantra: caveat vendor".Writing from Canada, Excess Copyright blogger and internationally respected commentator Howard Knopf suspects that legislative intervention may be on the way: "This is a big setback for American retailers and consumers. [read post]
1 Apr 2011, 7:26 am
In response to a request for further information made by William New of the excellent and ever-reliable Intellectual Property Watch, which is based locally in Geneva, a spokesperson --who asked not to be identified by name --  explained that neither list has yet been ratified, but possible blogs for inclusion on the “A-List” include Howard Knopf’s Excess Copyright, which is known to have targeted the much-admired United States ‘301 reports’,… [read post]
29 Feb 2012, 11:35 pm by David Ma
”.This one comes by way of Howard Knopf who has a nice pithy summary of the facts of the case on his blog. [read post]
6 Jul 2009, 2:17 am
The legality of file sharing has been hotly debated in this country for many years, and the issue boiled over again recently with the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) trading pot shots in the press with copyright luminaries like Michael Geist and Howard Knopf over both the legality of the practice and its effect on the recording industry. [read post]
17 Nov 2009, 12:35 am by Michael Geist
The piece appears as part of a special section on copyright that included an interview with Industry Minister Tony Clement, Charlie Angus, Howard Knopf, Pina D'Agostino, and Simon Doyle (amont others). [read post]
17 Nov 2006, 5:40 am
  Instead of hurriedly introducing a bill that will leave everyone unhappy, the Conservatives would do far better to launch a consultation or commission (as Howard Knopf suggested this week) on copyright. [read post]
23 May 2011, 3:20 am
With an unprecedented and possibly never-to-be-repeated admission that he is lost for words, the IPKat's friend and fellow blogger Howard Knopf records the horrific sight (above) of a copyright symbol being claimed as a trade mark. [read post]