Free Press, CPT, WIPO blog
p2pnet.net News:- Non-partisan media reform group Free Press and the Consumer Project on Technology have teamed up to provide blow-by-blow coverage of events, blogging from inside the WIPO negotiations.
Daily reports and more information on WIPO are available here.
In the meanwhile, Free Press has endorsed the Development Agenda proposal, written by Brazil and Argentina and backed by 12 other developing countries, which calls for reforms to the (WIPO) World Intellectual Property Organization, the UN organization whose mission is to "promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world."
WIPO has been a "tool of industry" for too long, says global policy coordinator Sasha Costanza-Chock.
"The Development Agenda proposal would reform WIPO so that the needs of people in both developing and developed countries would come before the profit margins of Big Media."
WIPO administers 23 international treaties on copyright, patents and other forms of "intellectual property rights."
The Development Agenda, supported by hundreds of public interest organizations and scientists, would prioritize development concerns within all WIPO work, says Free Press, going on:
“Currently, WIPO pushes developing country governments to adopt strict, US-style copyright, patent and trademark laws, which focus on protecting corporations."
The US delegation to WIPO, headed by the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Paul Salmon, is trying to block the reform proposals.
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See:-
reform WIPO – EFF letter on WIPO ban, p2pnet, March 25, 2005
