[WSIS CS-Plenary] Blog from this week's WIPO meeting

[Sasha Costanza-Chock]

Free Press (www.freepress.net) and the Consumer Project on Technology 
(www.cptech.org) are teaming up to bring you a blow-by-blow from inside 
this week's important World Intellectual Propety Organization (WIPO) 
meeting in Geneva.

At this meeting, public interest organizations are supporting developing 
country demands for a Development Agenda that would reform WIPO and put 
development needs ahead of an ever-broader 'intellectual property' 
regime. If the Development Agenda succeeds, WIPO could shift from its 
current role as a tool of Big Media, Pharma, Agribusiness, and 
Micro$oft, used to promote stronger, longer copyright, patents, and 
trademarks without regard to the impact on health, creativity, and 
development, to an institution that promotes access to knowledge with 
the aim of meeting the UN Millenium Development Goals.

Brazilian activist Pablo Ortellado will be blogging regular updates on 
the battle inside WIPO to www.mediatrademonitor.org.