Intellectual property

What is Intellectual property?
Intellectual property must be analyzed to define the concept of copyright, or intellectual property rights. Just as one must define and set limits around the concept of property rights to handle this. But if one accepts private property, then one must also accept the intellectual property rights.Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce. According to WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) is IP divided into two categories:  Industrial property, which includes inventions (patents), trademarks, industrial designs, and geographic indications of source; and Copyright, which includes literary and artistic works such as novels, poems and plays, films, musical works, artistic works such as drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures, and architectural designs.
As an example, take music. If you download music from Internet without paying for it, it is the same as stealing. Your property, the physical CD you have paid for, you can do pretty much whatever you want with., but not copy or put it out on the Internet. Once you have purchased a CD, you have accepted any purchase terms.

Data Rentention Directive (DRD) and Privacy

DRD was adoptet by the EU in 2006 and will be implemented by all Member States and EEA countries. The purpose of the directive is to give athorities a better chance to combat serious crime in that information about telephone and Internet traffic is stored.

But what is to be stored?
- Data necessary to track and identify everyone that communicate via text, audio or pictures(telephone, cell phone, email,Internet access).
- Date, time and duration of contact.
- Telephonenumbers and information that identifies sim card, phone and cell phone.
- Information about the location where the mobile equipment was when the contact began.
- Data to be stored and kept for at least 6 months and a maximum of 2 years.

DRD implies a requirement for recording of what we do with whom. Information will be made available to the police and the authorities. Datatilsynet

Svein Willassen has prepared an analysis of police use of the information to be stored, and the risk factors for Privacy. He has made three different groups:
A) History of Internet access and log for access to email addresses: this data may be crucial in investigation context and result in few risk factors for Privacy.
B) Traffic data from phones and cell phones: such data are usefull in investigation context, but tfe storage means prominent risk factors for Privacy.
C) Log of who sent email to whom: such data is of little benefit in investigation context, and storage results in significant risk factors for Privacy.
Read more about the analysis here.

A divided Norwegian goverment sends the controversial Data Rentention Directiv for consultation. SV and Sp maintains its oppositin. Ap needs support of Høyre to get the directive passed in Parilament. The deadline is set at 12.April, and the goverment`s ambition is to present a draft law to the Parliament by the summer.

I think there wil be an enormous amount of data to be stored, and I wonder how it will be possible to maintain privacy and protection of sources with such large amount of data, so they not will be missused. And then, what about the feeling of being watched, everything you say or do wil be stored, whether you`re doing something wrong or not.
This Video is about DRD in Norwegian: