[Upd-discuss] #2 Copyright Brief History

[Michael Hart]

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On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, François Briatte wrote:

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>>> "Much of the U.S. criticism of the UN stems from the fact that the 
>>> United States pays a disproportionate percentage of the organization’s 
>>> budget. That is not the case with the WIPO. Despite the fact that as, a 
>>> hightechnology leader, the United States benefits directly and 
>>> substantially from strong intellectual property protection, it pays less 
>>> than 1 percent of the WIPO operating budget."
>> 
>> Simply because there are 175 member nations, who, en masse, pay only 7%,
>> so it would be literally impossible for one member nation to pay 1 
>> percent.
>> 
>> So what is the point of the above tirade, other than being misleading?
>
> The point is : governments have encouraged WIPO to live on its own funds.

FALSE:

You sound as if you would like to confuse the issue into a sort of
"which came first, the chicken or the egg" question. . . .

However. . .it is obvious to anyone who takes a look at the origins of
our copyright system that the entire thing originated NOT with gov'ts
encouraging businesses to create copyright laws, but with. . .

BUSINESSES ENCOURAGING GOVERNMENTS TO CREATE COPYRIGHT LAWS.

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