[LINK] US: Intellectual Property and Risks to the Public!

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Kim Holburn wrote:
> There you go, computer piracy causes kidney failure, who'd have  
> thought it?
> 

Thanks Kim, I have had a couple of offlink responses to my
post....and was composing a post...though I can't match
yours!

1. Note my link post of a few days ago - the nutrition
database is a fantastic example of Gov/Web 2.0!:
<http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2010-February/087031.html> 




2. In particular, check out the Nutrition Facts of Sardines
eg Calcium and Vitamin D (current hot deficiencies)
- then check out the labeling on a can of sardines in your
supermarket vs various other processed products:
<http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/finfish-and-shellfish-products/4114/2>

3.See discussion on Wikipedia
> Just to tell everyone here, this edit IS going to be a stab at the milk industry and the United States Department of Agriculture, who designed the food pyramid.
> 
> I'm not going to mention these two things, but I am going to emphasize the large number of alternative calcium sources, as a passive agressive attack on our acceptance of thinking what the dairy industry and the government tells us.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Calcium#upcoming_edit>

4. And....Check out my recent post to ICTGOV...
> Lessons for ICT Project Risk Management - from the 
Insulation Program
<http://listserv.csu.edu.au/pipermail/ictgov/2010/000301.html>

and for good measure the FUD around Open Source and
Linux....and Why we need Microsoft and virus checkers.

Marghanita

> The counterfeit drug market especially coming out of China and  
> possibly India is a real problem and a serious health issue but mostly  
> for the 3rd world and Africa, you know, poor people, not us.  Little  
> of it reaches developed countries.  Fake antibiotics and fake anti- 
> malarials have caused, are causing a lot of misery.
> 
> Most of the issues are general issues with manufacturing overseas in  
> an environment where rich countries outsource pollution regulations,  
> workers pay and conditions, industrial standards.
> 
> None of that has anything to do with copying on the internet though.
> 
> On 2010/Feb/24, at 10:14 AM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> 
>>> Intellectual property are the ideas behind inventions, the artistry  
>>> that goes into books and music, and the logos of companies whose  
>>> brands we have come to trust.   My job is to help protect the ideas  
>>> and creativity of the American public.  One of the reasons that I  
>>> care about this is because I believe it is enormously important  
>>> that the United States remain a global leader in these forms of  
>>> innovation – and part of how we do that is by appropriately  
>>> protecting our intellectual property.  Our intellectual property  
>>> represents the hard work, creativity, resourcefulness, investment  
>>> and ingenuity of the American public.  Infringement of intellectual  
>>> property can hurt our economy and can undermine U.S. jobs.   
>>> Infringement also reduces our markets overseas and hurts our  
>>> ability to export our products.  Counterfeit products can pose a  
>>> significant threat to the health and safety of us all.  Imagine  
>>> learning that the toothpaste you and your family have used for  
>>> years contains a dang
>> erous chemical.  U.S. Customs officials have seized several  
>> shipments of counterfeit toothpaste containing a dangerous amount of  
>> diethylene glycol, a chemical used in brake fluid, and that in  
>> sufficient doses is believed to cause kidney failure.  All of these  
>> are reasons why your government has renewed its efforts to challenge  
>> this illegal activity.
>>> My job is to help coordinate the work of the federal agencies that  
>>> are involved with stopping this illegal behavior.  We are going to  
>>> work together to develop a strategy to reduce those risks to the  
>>> public, the costs to our economy and to help protect the ingenuity  
>>> and creativity of Americans.  We want to be able to reduce the  
>>> number of infringing goods in the United States and abroad.  The  
>>> examples are almost endless: counterfeit car parts, illegal  
>>> software, pirated video games, knockoff consumer goods, dangerous  
>>> counterfeit medicines, and many other types of products – including  
>>> very sophisticated technology.  Our goal is to better use taxpayer  
>>> dollars and other government resources to be more effective in  
>>> reducing any threat to our economy and our safety.
>>> To further these goals, we are working to find ways of measuring  
>>> these threats and their impact on us.  How many jobs depend on the  
>>> existence of intellectual property?  What are the greatest risks to  
>>> health and safety?  We need better data on these questions and it  
>>> is part of my job to figure out what the answers are.  We cannot do  
>>> that without your help.  So, my office is asking the public to give  
>>> us information about the costs and the risks – and then give us  
>>> suggestions for what we could be doing better as a government.   As  
>>> a first step, we are issuing a notice to the public asking for your  
>>> input.  HereÂ’s a link to this request (pdf).  You can send your  
>>> comments to intellectualproperty at omb.eop.gov.  We look forward to  
>>> hearing from you.
>> <http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/02/23/intellectual-property-and-risks-public 
>> -- 
>> Marghanita da Cruz
>> http://ramin.com.au
>> Tel: 0414-869202
>>
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Marghanita da Cruz
http://ramin.com.au
Tel: 0414-869202