The generic IP regime is seriously flawed, and needs re-thinking way so much more than the heavyweight entrenching with DMCA, TTP, TTIP and ISDS.

We are so far removed from common sense! Let’s pick a non-emotive example…

Nokia (a Finnish company) trademarked the commonplaceEnglish word “here” and took heat for attacking them — long after they were established, but shortly before they sold the “Brand” for ~2bn. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31059897

Personally

• if some one generates a new “brand” like say Accenture, what is done with it is very much their business.
• However is someone wants to remove a common “English*” word (or even the letter i or e) from normal usage, then all the “English* speaking countries” they wish to do this in should charge them a very high tax.
• I was using the word “here” decades before Nokia moved into phones…

I read about “react” but failed to react to their plans, before they “react”ed to all the criticism.

notes

• didn’t know, don’t care what their religion is should be private — it’s what they do…
• * or language of choice…
• whilst I agree that there are many “haters” on the internet, there are many aspects of “big-business” attempting to take from the population at large, at a time when may are feeling disenfranchised. Perhaps that reaction should be taken as a sign of frustration also?