EFF and IP Justice under attack at WIPO conference

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Subject: EFF and IP Justice under attack at WIPO conference
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 12:22:32 GMT
From: Macki


I just spent some time catching up on all the action over at WIPO and=
 thought
I'd share my poorly written summary with politech. Everyone should be paying
attention to what's going on over there, and crying bloody murder on behalf=
 of
the developing nations and our pals at IP Justice and the EFF (who are=
 getting
shafted, surprise!).

WIPO has been meeting for this week in Geneva, under discussion is a=
 broadcast
treaty that would cover webcasters and grant new rights to publishers a la=
 the
DMCA, prohibiting circumvention of technical measures, etc. etc. Typical=
 evil
stuff. IP Justice has a statement on the situation here:
http://www.ipjustice.org/WIPO/release20041118.shtml

It seems that things have gone from bad to worse over the past three days,=
 the
chair of WIPO and persons unknown have resorted to dirty tricks in an=20
attempt to
ramrod the proposal through. The Chair has abandoned consensus building, and=
 is
now DICTATING to the member countries how they will proceed. The Chair is
pushing to begin a Diplomatic Conference which would mean that drafting=
 would
begin on the official Broadcast Treaty and NGO public interest groups like=
 the
EFF and IP Justice will no longer be able to attend and monitor the=20
process. Not
only that, but the NGO's are currently UNDER ATTACK; for three days running=
 now
they have had their publications STOLEN by saboteurs and thrown into=
 trashcans.
These documents are essential for communicating their positions to the=20
delegates
and reproducing them requires a long bus trip into town.

Cory Doctorow is among the EFF representatives at WIPO, he has been blogging=
 as
the situation develops at eff.org/deeplinks/

More on the stolen documents:=
 http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/002117.php

Read all of today's the filthy details here:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/002130.php

=ADMacki


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