[Upd-discuss] #2 Copyright Brief History

[François Briatte]

On Sep 7, 2004, at 6:40 PM, Michael Hart wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, François Briatte wrote:
>
>>> If the car makers of 175 countries tried to so something like this,
>>> they would be laughed out of town. . . .
>>
>> Global Business Dialogue on eCommerce ?
>
> And it gets a lot of negative press, whereas copyright laws get none.

I know very little about the GBDe, I don't feel competent enough to 
discuss it. All I know is that some of the policy papers written for 
the GBDe say approximately the same thing as the "integrated approach" 
of regulation developed by the OECD (check e.g. speeches by John 
Dryden)

>>>> -- in "WIPO, a success story", World Affairs, Fall  1997, vol. 160, =

>>>> #2, pages 104-108
>>> Hee hee!
>>
>> I knew that title would make you smile :)
>> Obviously, a success for the WIPO staff.
>
> Hardly an unbiased source of information. . . .

I wrote the merit is theirs, I did not write they were the source of 
the information. Empirical studies show that the WIPO AMC, for example, 
is very successful with the UDRP DNS procedures (between 80 an 90 
precent of successful caselaw, if I recall well).

>>> I guess this depends on whose history you read. . .
>>
>> Shu Zhang wrote an outstandingly well documented Ph. D. on the WIPO =

>> to GATT shift : « De l’OMPI au GATT », Litec, 1994 (French).
>
> I'd LOVE to hear a few of your favorite quotations, if you would be so =

> kind.

It's a very, very, very interesting book (in fact it was applauded by 
its directors). Lexis Nexis published it, check their website for morre 
info. ZHANG's main hypothesis is, the WIPO to GATT shift was motivated 
by the deficit in foreign trade balance.