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Linux-Announce Digest #924
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Linux-Announce Digest #924, Volume #4 Thu, 14 Oct 2004 19:13:04 EDT
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Towards a "World Intellectual Wealth Organisation" (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Towards a "World Intellectual Wealth Organisation" (fwd)
Date: 14 Oct 2004 22:00:35 GMT
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http://fsfeurope.org/documents/wiwo.en.html
Towards a
"World Intellectual Wealth Organisation"
Supporting the Geneva Declaration
The Geneva Declaration [1] is an impressive step towards the creation of
a broad coalition of people, organisations and countries [2] demanding
that the international community re-think the goals and mechanisms for
awarding monopoly control over different kinds of knowledge. It offers
many constructive, concrete suggestions for changes in WIPO goals,
policies and priorities, and provides ample and insightful arguments for
redesign of the copyright and patent bargains to better serve the public
interest of all of humankind.
We are convinced that new answers sometimes require new questions, not
more careful repetition of old questions. A World Intellectual Property
Organisation will always, understandably, lean towards applying the
pre-selected tool-set of monopolisation that it refers to as
Intellectual Property; a term that we find to be ideologically charged
and dangerously oblivious to the significant differences that exist
between the many areas of law that it tries to subsume.
While it may look at better, possibly more socially sustainable ways of
granting ownership-like monopolies over different forms of knowledge,
WIPO will not have an easy time looking for alternative solutions. WIPO
is not what we need.
We need a World Intellectual Wealth Organisation, dedicated to the
research and promotion of novel and imaginative ways to encourage the
production and dissemination of knowledge. Granting limited monopolies
and limited control over some kinds of knowledge may be part of this new
organisations tool-set, but not the only one, and maybe not even the
most important one.
We endorse and support the Geneva Declaration, and invite its drafters,
signatories, and the United Nations to start thinking now not only about
what the role of WIPO should be, but rather what kind of organisation we
need in its place.
References
[1] Geneva Declaration:
http://www.cptech.org/ip/wipo/genevadeclaration.html
[2] Proposal by Argentina and Brazil for the establishment of a
development agenda for WIPO:
http://www.wipo.int/documents/en/document/govbody/wo_gb_ga/pdf/wo_ga_31=
_11.pdf
Signatories
Organisations
* ANSOL - Associa=E7=E3o Nacional para o Software Livre
* APRIL
* Asociaci=F3n Software Libre y Patrimonio Intelectual Libre
* Assoli - Associazione Software Libero
* Free Software Foundation Europe
* Fundaci=F3n Conocimiento Libre
* La Fundaci=F3n V=EDa Libre
* Linux User Group Bozen-Bolzano-Bulsan
* Movimento Costozero
* Netzwerk Neue Medien
* UKUUG - the UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group
* Verein zur F=F6rderung Freier Software
* Vrijschrift
* WilhelmTux
* Ynternet.org - Free communication for communities
Individuals
* Alex Hudson
* Beatriz Busaniche
* Beno=EEt Sibaud
* David Ayers
* Federico Heinz
* Francis MUGUET
* Fr=E9d=E9ric Couchet
* Georg Greve
* Graham Seaman
* Jeroen Dekkers
* Jonas Oberg
* Marc SCHAEFER
* Markus Beckedahl
* Matthias Kirschner
* MJ Ray
* Pablo Mach=F3n
* Patrick Ohnewein
* Reinhard M=FCller
* Richard Stallman
* Rik van Riel
* S=E9bastien DINOT
* Simone Piccardi
* Stefano Maffulli
* Th=E9o Bondolfi
* Volker Dormeyer
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