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DEVELOPMENT & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STUDY GROUP 4 November 2009 What Is There To Celebrate About Intellectual Property ? The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPhil) celebrated Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Week this last week of October, ostensibly as a mandate of Presidential Proclamation 79 (1992), which, as pointed out by IPOPhil Director General Cristobal, is an expression [...]

Questioning the Connection Between Intellectual Creation, Commercialization and Commodification : A Challenge to the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines By the Development and Intellectual Property Study Group 1 The National Intellectual Property Policy and Strategy (NIPPS) is an initiative by the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IP Philippines) that seeks to institutionalize the inter-agency coordination [...]

Dear friends, As a follow-up  from the last NIPPS (National Intellectual Property Policy and Strategy) National Forum held June 17 organized by The Third World Network, there will be a Kuro-Kuro (small-group discussion) to those who are interested, on the Digital Workplace, 23 September, 2pm, at TWN/Tebtebba office, Rm 333, Eagle Court [...]

Interrogating Art Competitions Coordinated by De la Salle – College of St. Benilde (c/o Elvert de la Cruz Bañares) 23 March 2007, 3:30-7:00 pm, De La Salle – College of St. Benilde, Manila Download Transcript of the Kuro (PDF) HIGHLIGHTS The final Kuro Forum was held in conjunction with the Awarding Ceremonies of the WebSining 2007 Digital Arts Competition. Held in partnership [...]

Intellectual Property Rights: Issues and concerns Organized by Kalimudan Culture and Arts Center (c/o Alma Celesthia Dumalag-Aguja) – General Santos City 24 February 2007, 1:35 – 5:10 pm Conference Room, Leah’s Pension House, Champaca St., General Santos City Download the Kuro Transcript (PDF) HIGHLIGHTS There were 27 participants who attended the second round of Kuro in General Santos City. The participants, [...]

Art, Technology, Advocacy and Society Coordinated by Tutok Karapatan (c/o Karen Ocampo Flores) – Manila 15 February 2007, 2:30 – 5:00 pm MKP Multipurpose Hall, Bulwagang Juan Luna, 4/F, Cultural Center of the Philippines Download NCR1_Transcript (PDF) HIGHLIGHTS Orientation to Kuro and WebSining By Alan G. Alegre, Foundation for Media Alternatives and Geejay Arriola, Project Co-Director, WebSining 2007 Al introduced himself, the Foundation for Media Alternatives [...]

Multimedia Production and Intellectual Property Rights A Kuro Panel Discussion Coordinated by DabaweGNU (c/o Holden Hao) – Davao City 2 December 2006, 1:00 – 5:00 pm DabaweGNU, Inc., Davao City Download Davao_Transcript (PDF) HIGHLIGHTS Mr. Holden Hao gave a presentation on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). He first defined IPR as legal entitlements attached to certain types of information, ideas and other intangibles in [...]

The National Intellectual Property Policy and Strategy (NIPPS) is an initiative by the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IP Philippines) that seeks to institutionalize the inter-agency coordination on the enforcement of intellectual property rights as well as increase the awareness of the Filipino public about intellectual property. The NIPPS document has since been submitted [...]

A Rose by any other name would taste just as awful … What’s in a Name? If one is planning the establishment of a “think tank” (or any other, similar, study group) involved in exploring the problems and potential solutions concerning any specific subject -then it might be essential to first think very carefully about how to [...]

All Property is theft -and Intellectual Property is Intellectual Theft! As expressed in NIPPS, the country’s National IP policy is founded on what IP Philippines calls the “IP Value Chain.” According to NIPPS, there are three steps in the “IP Value Chain” – first. is intellectual capital or intellectual assets; second is the acquisition of intellectual [...]

Finally home after some 6 weeks in Baclayon, Bohol! And an update on Kitty3:  Because my mom didn’t want to have another (female) cat, we earlier thought of bringing the tiny kitten along with us to Bohol. I rang up the cargo section of Cebu Pacific and was told that I can’t hand-carry the kitten and [...]

Of course, just when we are about to leave for Bohol, a new Kitty shows up! And she looks so much like Kitty1 and KittyKitty! Another pain in the ass when she grows up no doubt!

Hello everyone, I’d just like to announce Edward’s new website - Edward’s Compatibility Club -A website about interpretation and the future - at http://korakora.org/edward/ *  About Edward’s Compatibility Club http://korakora.org/edward/about/ * Some advice on The Consultation http://korakora.org/edward/some-advice-on-the-consultation/ * Why “Compatibility”? http://korakora.org/edward/why-compatibility/ Please have a visit and ask Edward to make a reading for you and your friends. And please pass on to all who might [...]

Dear friends, As a follow-up  from the last NIPPS (National Intellectual Property Policy and Strategy) National Forum held June 17 organized by The Third World Network, there will be a Kuro-Kuro (small-group discussion) to those who are interested, on the Digital Workplace, 23 September, 2pm, at TWN/Tebtebba office, Rm 333, Eagle Court Condominium, 26 Matalino Street, [...]

I wanted to write something about looking after myself again, but it won’t … I just wanted to say - I still don’t understand it today, just as I didn’t understand it four years ago when someone told me that I shouldn’t marginalize myself. I supposed then that the remark came out of my post-colonial ramblings, or [...]

This is probably the hundredth time, but I’ve just completely re-designed my Crochetology.net website. At the moment I am still putting texts and photos in it, but I think it is a much better website now. I’ve also re-written much of the previous texts I’ve done, this time, presenting the crocheted objects as solutions or experiments [...]

Just to announce that I’ve (almost) completed my on-line archive of electronic music (1999-2002). The last sound work I composed is in 2004 called “*Mga awit mula sa gimokud / Chansons de mes deux âmes* - It is actually a sound installation (the sound piece runs indefinitely and is composed of [...]

Few days ago, we went to the post office to visit our postmaster (who will be retiring in a year) and post some letters to friends. And because we were quite hungry, we decided to have lunch in he canteen. I always dread eating out because good affordable food (nutritious and real food - that is [...]

http://www.korakora.org/node/38 Dear Joel Tenenbaum, My name is Fatima Lasay, artist from the Philippines. Reading about the transformation of your life under this trial brought about by the American legal system and the American recording industry, I am reminded of the history of the transformation of life in the Philippines brought about by American expansion in [...]

For the folks out there who are still patronizing Coca-Cola products, apart from health reasons, below are more reasons why you should stop. Pass on. CBS, “Bottled H2O Backlash,” July 8, 2009 Millions of Americans prefer bottled water over tap. But, as Kelly Wallace reports, a new congressional report indicates there is little evidence as to what is [...]