[WSIS CS-Plenary] coherence between the WIPO and WSIS processes?

[Thomas Ruddy]

George and others,

I must agree that there has been only scant reference to Patents,
Copyrights, Trademarks (PCT) as part of Internet Governance. That is the
agenda at WIPO, where developments are proceeding quite separately from
WSIS. Francis Muguet referred to the lack of coherence between the two
processes in his statement to the GFC. I also referred to it during the WSIS
session among CODATA scientists in Berlin last week,
http://www.codata.org/04conf/abstracts/WSIS/index.html 

Thus the larger question emerges: if the WG on Internet Governance does not
deal with PCT, then who will ensure coherence between the WIPO and WSIS
processes?

BTW the OECD has also spoken on related issues.

Best,
Thomas Ruddy

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Thomas Ruddy, Switzerland, convenor of the Environment and ICT Working
Group, http://www.wsis.ethz.ch


> -----Original Message-----
> From: plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin at wsis-cs.org] On
> Behalf Of Georg C. F. Greve
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 11:31 PM
> To: plenary at wsis-cs.org
> Cc: wsis-pct at fsfeurope.org
> Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Working group on Internet Governance
> established
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>  || On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:40:52 +0100
>  || Jeanette Hofmann <jeanette at wz-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
>  jh> Hi, here is a link to the press release:
>  jh> http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/pi1620.doc.htm
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
>  jh> I think, civil society groups are well represented.
> 
> I could see noone from the Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks (PCT) or
> Free Software area. Did I overlook somebody or is it in fact true that
> the group/approach providing -- among other things -- the DNS system
> is not represented in the internet governance working group?
> 
> Regards,
> Georg
> 
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