Traduction de «Electronic Museum Intellectual Property Directory » (Anglais → Français) :

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Högsta domstolen — Interpretation of Directive 2006/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC (OJ 2006 L 105, p. 54) and Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of ...[+++]intellectual property rights (OJ 2004 L 157, p. 45) — Intellectual property — Exclusive right held by publishing companies to make audio books available to the public — Alleged infringement of that right in that those audio books were made accessible via an FTP (File transfer protocol) server, an internet file-sharing program — Order that the internet service provider which provides the internet link to the server by allocating it an IP address supply to the copyright owner information regarding the names and addresses of persons registered as users of that IP address during a given period

Only part of the material held by libraries, archives and museums is in the public domain, in the sense that it is not or is no longer covered by intellectual property rights, while the rest is protected by intellectual property rights.

This Directive should not affect substantive law on intellectual property, Directive 95/46/EC of 24 October 1995 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (4), Directive 1999/93/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 1999 on a Community framework for electronic signatures (5) and Directi ...[+++]ve 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the internal market (6).

I know for example that the Canadian Association of Broadcasters believes strongly that we must have strict copyright laws to protect the property of its members because to them the copyright is intellectual property, like an electronic mortgage that they should have a lien on or a televised mineral right that they are waiting to strip mine.

The European Union (EU) has begun to formulate several policy lines on electronic commerce by stimulating the development of an internal market for electronic services whilst safeguarding public interests (cf. Communications on "A European Initiative in Electronic Commerce COM(97)157 IP/97/313", "Harmful and Illegal Content COM(97)623 IP/97/862"). In parallel, the EU is contributing to the formulation of a global framework for communications and electronic commerce, for instance through the World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreement on basic telecommunication services, the agreement on tariffs for information technology products, and ...[+++]the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) agreement on the protection of intellectual property.

The report goes on to state: ``The policy should clearly articulate a university stance on the following issues: the responsibility of researchers to identify research results with possible economic or social benefits; electronic publishing; ownership of the intellectual property; a process for reporting and recording the facts of the case; routes and options for the protection of the intellectual property; options for revenue sharing; guidelines for technology transfers and commercialization, especially wit ...[+++]h Canadian based businesses; and exceptions to the policy in particular cases where a special contract is more desirable with the terms of the policy, such as in contract research, network research, or research involving a prior intellectual property''.