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The Economics of DRM in Capitalist Markets
Date: 20 March 2007
At the outset it is worth noting that DRM is a concept that broadly refers to different sets of technologies aimed at identifying and protecting digital content belonging to IP rights-holders. At times, DRM is treated as synonymous with technological protection measures (TPMs), which are aimed primarily at preventing the unauthorised copying and downloading of digital content or (though less frequently) to rights management information (RMI), aimed at identifying digital works and managing the provision of material to customers, or both.3 It should also be pointed out that depending on the characteristics of the content provided and the different media on which it is provided, different industries (for example the music, film and game industries) use different DRM systems to serve different purposes.
 Public Finance
Food policy proves hard to digest
Date: 16 February 2007
This uncertainty around food safety helps neither the reputation of British businesses competing in a global economy, nor the government which ultimately takes the blame when things go wrong.
With this in mind, perhaps it is time we gave the Food Standards Agency greater powers to be independent from government and to become a genuine watchdog with enough teeth to bite on the safety loopholes that still seem to exist in the creation and distribution of our food products. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
One European system puts patients in control
Date: 13 February 2007
Britain has been permitting private hospitals and clinics to satisfy people outraged at two-year waits for hip operations. Sweden has been privatizing. France and Germany are debating changes, says London-based health care analyst Helen Disney, in part because aging populations and generous promises have led to waiting lists and co-pays.
"You're starting to get consumer pressure from the ground up," Disney says. The European Union ruled a decade ago that countries must pay when their citizens travel to other EU countries for care, so people are skipping the waiting lists, subverting the usual cost control. Europeans still want taxes to pay for care, she says, but they want to be treated like customers. Governments, thus, are scrambling to imitate markets. NGOWatch
WIPO Report From Geneva
Date: 31 January 2007
Anne Jensen of the Stockholm Network represented the Federalist Society at Day 2 of WIPO's Global Congress on Counterfeiting and Piracy. What follows is her daily report for Wednesday, January 31.
Contingency Today
Securing European Critical Energy Infrastructure
Date: 31 January 2007
Former energy security advisor to the US military's European Command and Stockholm Network energy fellow, Paul Domjan, argues that Russia is pursuing an integrated strategy of trying to segment the European market through sweetheart deals with key countries. Britain is a case study of a "worst-case scenario". NATO and a strengthened IEA should play bigger roles.
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