Intellectual Property in Iran

Center for Technology Studies (SUT) held a workshop on intellectual property at Graduate School of Management and Economics (SUT). Kamran Bagheri, from Iran's Research Institute Of Petroleum Industry, lectured on the Intellectual Property Acts in US, EU and Iran. Here are some interesting news!


The Intellectual Property Act of Iran is under revision! It has been approved in the first vote in Parliament (Majlis), and in about seven months, it will be a law. Some effects of this act (as Mr. Bagheri told) will be increase in registration prices (i.e. you can get a patent for $30~40 by now) and international interest on copyright and patent registeration in Iran.

Update: Current amount of registered patents per year is about five thousands, that may increase up to fifty thousands with the new act.

I'm trying to get more information and will post here as soon as possible.

Journalists' Rights in Iran

A couple of weeks ago, I missed the Speech of Kambiz Norouzi on Rights and Professional Morality of Photojournalism which was held on Iranian Artists Organization.

Based on news reports, Kambiz Norouzi will be in court branch no. 1083 of General Court of Tehran, headed by Judge Husseinian and he will defend himself. He is accused of propaganda against the establishment, irreverent comments and his accuser is general prosecutor.

Hope they let me to get to the session.

Kambiz Norouzi is a Lawyer and Lecturer on Press Rights in University and Media Education Center in Iran. More about Kambiz Norouzi: English, Persian, Persian (misspell)

GUADEC Logo Design Contest

Here are my works for the GUADEC logo design contest. You can find my complete set of GUADEC Logos at my photostream.

And the LORD said: Vim

And the LORD said, behold, editor is one, and it has one binding language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.


Bram sent an email titled "Vim mapping" to announce mailing list, so I joined the group at Frappr. The map is found here: http://www.frappr.com/vim.

GNOME's marketing slogan for 2006

GNOME's marketing slogan for 2006 Originally uploaded by ZWNJ.

Last week, FootNotes held a brainstorming for a Motto/Slogan for GNOME.

Seeing the poll for the final results, my suggestion is at the first place! This would be my best contribution to the GNOME project; after all those patches for Character Map, Pango, etc.

Horizontal theme for Guifications

Horizontal theme for Guification Originally uploaded by ZWNJ.

Here are my Horizontal theme for Gaim's Guifications plugin.

Download horizontal-1.0.tar.gz
Download horizontal-1.0.zip

Just sets "IM Message", "Invited", "Name Spoken", "Topic Changed" and "Warned" event, as they are the only feature that I use.


Ubuntu HOWTO:

$ sudo apt-get install gaim-guifications wget
$ mkdir -p ~/.gaim/guifications/themes/
$ wget http://zwnj.org/proj/guifications/horizontal-1.0.tar.gz -O - | tar -zx -C ~/.gaim/guifications/themes/

Before Home Computers

We were too lazy the other night; so we decided to have some fun with my new Canon 300D. Looking around for a subject, I rememberd Nat's photos that was the next generation of Bill's ones. Here is what we did, episode I of the trilogy: Before Home Computers.

He is Amin, the network manager and my good friend at Computer Center of Sharif University.