[WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [Wsis-pct] IPJ: US & Japan Upset Consensus for Development Agenda at WIPO

[Richard M. Stallman]

The US attitude is probably that WIPO exists to do the empire's
bidding and otherwise should do nothing at all.  It will probably
prevent any work on the development agenda if it is approved.

There are two possible ways to respond to this:

1. The countries that promoted the development agenda should retaliate
by simply blocking everything that the US wants WIPO to do.  That is a
partial victory anyway.  WIPO has done primarily harm in the past, so
if it does no further harm, that is better.

2. Maybe they can vote to expel the US and Japan from WIPO.  The US
under business-dominated rule will not sign any WIPO treaty unless it
takes away rights from the citizens.  So if WIPO ever proposes a
treaty that goes in the other direction, the US won't sign it anyway.
Therefore, there's nothing to lose by expelling the US now?  It might
then be possible to disavow the WIPO copyright treaty, so that it
cannot be used as an excuse for US pressure to adopt laws like the
DMCA.

If this results in a decrease in funding for WIPO "technical
assistance", that would be another step forward.  That "technical
assistance" is structured to bribe patent officials lawfully, with
foreign resort junkets, and train them to repeat megacorporate
propaganda.

Does the WIPO General Assembly also operate by consensus?