[A2k] Re: [Upd-discuss] MORE Swindle Context 3: World Blind Union's Proposed Exceptions Treaty

[Michael S. Hart]

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Richard M Stallman wrote:
>
>     I also warn you, yet once again, that it is useless to talk this
>     stuff with WIPO because THEY ARE THE ROOT OF THIS CONFLICT.
>
> It is mostly useless to talk about this with WIPO.  WIPO has mostly
> been controlled by the companies that benefit from the powers that
> WIPO promotes.  This has changed in recent years, but the change is
> only partial.
>
> Meanwhile, due to TRIPES (Trade-Restricting Impediments to Production,
> Education and Science), which is part of GATT, it would be hard for
> WIPO to reduce the strength of copyright power even if it wanted to
> try.
>
> However, WIPO still has the power to make things worse, and that is
> what the WIPO DRM Treaties attempt to do.  Thus, what countries should
> demand of WIPO is that it denounce these treaties as bad policy, and
> call on countries that have signed them to withdraw from them.

WIPO is going to continue to make things worse, not better.

You'll have to support your cliams they have changed at all,
I can't see it whatsover where I sit.

Te very nature of WIPO is to their benefit and our detriment,
and I have never seen ANYTHING positive from them in other
than lip service.

I can only hope without real hope that you are correct,
until you provide concrete evidence of their ACTIONS speaking
more loudly than their WORDS.



Thanks!!!


Michael S. Hart
Founder
Project Gutenberg
Inventor of ebooks


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