[WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [Wsis-pct] IP-Watch: Intellectual Property Issues Kept Off WSIS Agenda

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

Forgive me if I misunderstood, but i thought that the consensus, or  
at least rough consensus, in this WG was that the WGIG/WSIS should  
stay away from the topic of IP unless it could be transformed into  
the discussion on PCT.  I also thought there was a general feeling  
that it was better to have the topic be ignored then to have it dealt  
with incorrectly.

So, I was thinking that this was a result that was asked for.  I know  
that in the WGIg i stayed away from the topic for the most part  
because i felt it was one the CS PCT WG preferred for us to stay away  
from.

a.



On 1 dec 2005, at 21.07, Richard M. Stallman wrote:

> Robin Gross sent us:
>
>     said Robin Gross, executive director of IP Justice. "We got," said
>     Gross, "three minutes at the Tunis plenary, and that?s it on  
> the topic
>     of intellectual property."
>
> I wish there had been more discussion of some of the disparate issues
> that are lumped together by some under that term.  However, the
> premise that "the topic of intellectual property" makes sense as a
> single coherent topic frames discussion in such a way as to impede
> thoughtful treatment of any one of those issues.  To have useful
> discussion of these issues, we would need to avoid raising them
> as "the topic of intellectual property".
>
> See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.xhtml.
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