[DMCA-Activists] CPTech Statement on WIPO General Assembly

[Seth Johnson]

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Subject: [A2k] James Love: CPTech Statement regarding WIPO
General Assembly (2005)
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 17:57:41 -0400
From: Manon Ress <address@hidden>
To: a2k discuss list <address@hidden>

"The WIPO General Assembly continues to support the WIPO
Development Agenda discussions and it stopped just short of
making a decision about a Diplomatic Conference regarding the
Broadcasting, Cablecasting and Webcasting Organizations treaty. 
The current impasse over the patent treaty demonstrates that the
old patent agenda has run out of steam. WIPO needs to come up
with a new patent agenda.  This new patent agenda should focus on
new ways to improve patent quality, control anti-competitive
practices and address problems facing standards organizations.

We also hope that member states will identify the appropriate
forum to discuss elements of a treaty on access to knowledge.  It
is important for WIPO to demonstrate it has a positive agenda for
innovation, creativity and access to creative and inventive
works.

The United States government and the European Commission should
abandon efforts to use WIPO as an instrument of uncritically
expanding intellectual property protection and the protection of
their export industries.  They should support a new dialogue
within WIPO.  A dialogue  consistent with modern intellectual
discourse about the reform of intellectual property regimes in
order to promote the public interest, North and South.

We look forward to discussions in November at the Standing
Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) regarding the
proposed treaty on the protection of broadcasting, cablecasting
and webcasting organizations and regarding the proposal by Chile
for a global minimum standards for limitations and exceptions for
copyright."

James Love,  Director
CPTech
  mailto:address@hidden
  tel. +1.202.332.2670 / mobile +1.202.361.3040

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