[Upd-discuss] #2 Copyright Brief History

[Michael Hart]

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On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Lars Aronsson wrote:

> François Briatte wrote:
>>> This has been part of the world copyright system since the
>>> start of the Berne Convention in 1886
>>
>> ... and the Paris convention in 1883 (industr. property)
>>
>>>  following the start of The United International Bureau for the Protection
>>> of
>>> Intellectual Property [BIRPI] only 3 years earlier.
>>
>> Incorrect. The staffs from the Paris and Berne Unions merged in 1888 (although
>> they continued to publish separate activity reports). The BIRPI were
>> officially created in 1892.
>
>
> There should be a lot of writings from these meetings (proceedings,
> comments, media coverage) that are now in the public domain. Probably
> also from other initiatives and events that took places more than 70
> years ago.  Is anybody digitizing or cataloging them?
>
> On the Wikipedia page
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_Literary_and_Artistic_Works
> all the external links point to WIPO's website.  Are there any
> independent sources of information that should be linked from there?

If finding out about the "hidden agendas" of these precursors to WIPO
is anywhere near as difficult as finding out about modern copyright
law making, this is going to be nigh well on to impossible. . .as I
must presume their real agendas were kept highly secret. . .though
I seem to have no trouble getting modern copyright mongers to say
right up front that they are in pursuit of permanent copyright,
even though most copyright laws specify "limited time/period."


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>
> Lars Aronsson.
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