[Ecommerce] Re: [Csc-announce] FYI: Paper on WIPO

[Jeff Williams]

Richard and all,

  It is and has been clear as glass to me that WIPO only has a
very tiny segment of the public interest in it's scope.  That I doubt
will change anytime soon, if ever.  So yes in we must condemn
them roundly regarding "public rights" as they no not of which
they speak as an organization.

  WIPO has not been inclusive in its dealings with public interest
issues for a number of years and has repeatedly proven that
by their lack of transparency on many occasions.

Richard Stallman wrote:

>     > I wrote this bit and I'm comfortable with it. Personally, I don't think
>     > these are good agreements at all; the world certainly does not need the
>     > WPPT or the WCT. But they could have been a lot worse. And that is the
>     > point. The paper does not endorse any of the agreements referred to and
>     > should not be taken as doing so.
>
> To describe a treaty as "balanced" is not, strictly speaking, to say
> that it is good.  But it has become a platitude to say that the
> criterion for good copyright policy is to find a "balance" between
> interests.  Thus, if you describe the treaty as "balanced",
> practically speaking people will read that as praise.
>
> These treaties could be even worse.  Every bad thing that happens,
> short of extinction of all life, could be worse.  But they attacked
> the public's rights, and we should condemn them roundly.
>
> (See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/reevaluating-copyright.html for an
> explanation of why "balance" is a mistaken criterion for copyright
> policy.)
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Regards,

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