Month: June 2018

Der Ausbau im Hamburger Hafen durch die Telekom beginnt. Aktiv sind dort auch die Stadtwerketochter Wilhelm.tel und deren Partner Willy.tel. Auch Vodafone will sein Kabelnetz mit Docsis 3.1 aufrüsten. (Glasfaser, Telekom)

Auf der CES Asia hat Huawei einen neuen Cloud-Dienst vorgestellt, der Windows 10 auf Smartphones streamt. Das Betriebssystem läuft komplett auf einem Server, das mobile Gerät dient ausschließlich der Anzeige. Dennoch sollen Nutzer auf das Dateisystem des Smartphones zugreifen können. (Huawei, Cloud Computing)

Kein Dröhnen eines Verbrenners, sondern das Sirren eines Elektromotors ist im nordenglischen Lake District zu hören gewesen, als Jaguar einen Weltrekord für elektrische Rennboote aufgestellt hat. Dabei ist Technik aus der Formel E zum Einsatz gekommen. (Jaguar Land Rover, Technologie)

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The UK has some of the toughest intellectual property legislation to be found anywhere in the world and rightsholders have plenty of options available, from civil action through to criminal referrals.

For the past several years the government has also shown a willingness to engage with the private sector in respect of online piracy. It has provided funding and resources to initiatives including the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit and the multi-faceted Operation Creative, a commitment that looks set to continue.

At the heart of many of these matters sits the Intellectual Property Office (IPO), the government department responsible for copyrights, trademarks, patents and designs. This week the IPO published two documents, one detailing its corporate plan for 2018-2019 and the other outlining its overall strategy to 2021. Both contain statements relating to online copyright enforcement.

“IP matters. It touches everything that makes modern life, easier, safer, prosperous and more enjoyable,” the IPO Strategy 2018 report begins.

“Our work gives researchers, inventors and creators, whether as individuals or businesses, the confidence to invest their time, energy and money in doing something new and making life better.”

The IPO says its aim is to help the UK become the most creative and innovative country in the world by providing excellent IP services, a world-leading IP environment, and by making the IPO itself a great place to work. Much of the information in the reports focuses on how that progress will be made in the broader sense, including via the reduction of IP crime and infringement.

The IPO believes this can be achieved in a number of ways, including by investing in enforcement and improving access to enforcement options for rights holders. Investment in intelligence and an increased capacity for strategic leadership are foreseen, in addition to spending boosts to convince everyone that infringement is unacceptable.

“We will work towards a time where infringement is seen as socially unacceptable by all,” the IPO writes.

Periodically over the past couple of years, the government has stepped into the middle of disputes between rightsholders and Internet intermediaries, suggesting that if agreements to curb piracy aren’t reached, legislation could follow.

The IPO sees this kind of work continuing over the next couple of years with an offer to “broker greater engagement from online intermediaries in the fight against infringement and IP crime.”

The IPO Corporate Plan 2018-2019 touches on similar issues, promising to ensure that appropriate resources are available to deliver on promises made as part of the government’s enforcement strategy.

“Reducing IP crime requires a multi-faceted approach. The UK is already a world leader in the enforcement of IP. We want to build upon what we are doing to create a paradigm shift around infringement,” the IPO writes.

“Before we can make this happen we need to improve our knowledge around consumer understanding of IP crime and infringement and what works to change behavior in this space. We need to understand the strengths and challenges of our enforcement approach, continue to invest in education and intelligence, and maintain and increase our capacity to lead.”

The IPO says it will consider if there are ways to reduce the costs of enforcement for rights holders, such as reducing the time taken to bring a matter to court and reducing costs once there.

The Office also wants to consider the possibility of more administrative approaches, including “administrative blocking injunctions”, something which it hopes to understand the “pros and cons” of by March 2019. But the plans don’t stop there.

“We will work with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport [DCMS] and industry to support the proposed program of roundtable discussions outlined in the Creative Industries’ Sector Deal.

“A key aspect will be ensuring they are used effectively to assess the evidence for, and where appropriate, to agree future action to tackle the infringement of IP rights online,” the IPO notes.

In conjunction with industry, the IPO hopes to develop “voluntary measures” to target online marketplaces, social media, and digital advertising, while continuing to co-fund the Creative Content UK (CCUK) educational campaign in conjunction with DCMS.

“To begin the work towards making the infringement of IP socially unacceptable, we need a better view of consumer attitudes to IP crime and what messaging changes behavior.

“We know that behavioral change is long-term and never easy, but we want to secure general cultural change where respecting IP is seen as the right thing to do. This work will link up with the messaging on IP’s economic and career impact,” the IPO concludes.

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The IPO Strategy 2018 report can be found here (pdf)
The IPO Corporate Plan 2018-2019 can be found here (pdf)

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Ab September 2018 soll er ausgeliefert werden: Der Smach Z ist ein relativ flotter Handheld, auf dem PC-Spiele wie GTA 5 oder Overwatch laufen - laut Hersteller mit einer Akkuladung bis zu fünf Stunden lang. Von Peter Steinlechner (E3 2018, AMD)

In Hollywoodfilmen haben Hacker mit Sturmmasken ein ganzes Arsenal von Zero-Day-Exploits, und auch sonst scheinen die kleinen Programme mehr und mehr als zentraler Begriff der IT-Sicherheit verstanden zu werden. Der Hacker Thomas Dullien hingegen versucht sich an einem theoretischen Modell eines Exploits. Von Hauke Gierow (Security, Applikationen)

Eine interessante Welt, schicke Grafik und ein erstaunlich gutes Fluggefühl: Golem.de hat das Actionrollenspiel Anthem von Bioware ausprobiert. (E3 2018, Rollenspiel)

Actionkameras werden von den meisten Privatpersonen nicht ständig benötigt, weshalb der Kauf einer mehrere Hundert Euro teuren Kamera absurd erscheint. Yi Technologies hat mit der Kamera Discovery ein 50-Euro-Modell angekündigt. (Digitalkamera, Foto)

Volvo will sich mit einem Investment in das Startup Luminar Sensortechnik für autonom fahrende Fahrzeuge sichern. Das hat auch schon Toyota getan. Luminar arbeitet mit einem Lasersensor, um die Umgebung abzutasten. (Lidar, Technologie)