My IGF presentation

I spoke yesterday at the OECD sponsored workshop on whethere we need guidelines for global policy in liability for online intermediaries, to which my answer is, categorically yes. There were some lively perspecxtives from the US Dept of Commerce, Google and the EFF, inter alia. Again more later, but here are the slides.

Igf oecd

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Tiffany v eBay

A tip off from WOIP blog that the long awaited suit by Tiffany's against eBay for trademark infringement - basically, stocking counterfeit Tiffany goods - is about to kick off.

http://woip.blogspot.com/2007/11/tiffany-versus-ebay.html

Given recent cases in France and Germany which have tentatively pointed towards a trend towards European judges not finding the EC E Commerce Directive Art 14 a complete defense for user generated content sites, this one could be very interesting :)