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Reunión de la WIPO en Bruselas (y II)

La reunión celebrada estos tres días en Ginebra por la WIPO ha tenido reflejo en la red. En Public-Domain.org, Cory Doctorow, Wendy Seltzer y David Tannenbaum han ido relatando lo acaecido durante los tres días de la reunión.

El lunes día 7, Cory Doctorow ya levantaba la liebre, mostrando el peligro de lo que se quería legislar

"We've all come to oppose the Broadcast Treaty (which will make the Web illegal and require the world's governments to mandate the design everything that can receive a signal, from a PC to a radio) and the proposed Database Treaty (which would let people who'd amassed public, uncopyrightable facts turn them into their exlusive property)"

y daba las primeras pinceladas del primer día de la reunión

*Brazil: From the Latin American perspective that regulation is premature. It's detrimental to innovation, science, education, access, etc., particularily in developing countries.

*ALA: Agree with Brazil, let's take this off the table here.

*Ecuador: We don't think that this should be on the agenda now.

*India: Where there's no creativity, databases are assets; that's the apporpriate concern to address by misappropriation, but not intellectual property. Perhaps some other rubric, some other forum is appropriate. Many entities need protection of sweat of brow assets but we shouldn't have all of them approaching WIPO for a remedy. We recommend the issue be deleted from the Standing Committee's agenda.

*US delegation: We think that this should remain on the agenda.

El martes 8, Cory comentaba lo acaecido respecto a Brasil:

There's a growing widespread awareness that use of such measures can be quite detrimental to rights of consumers and public at large. Significant concern that anticircumvention has significant negative for exercise of rights exceptions and limitations in national laws. Important obstacle to access of public to public domain materia.

This entire article (Article 16, Technical Protection Measures [ed: AKA DRM]) should be deleted from the text. Brazil recognizes that previous treaties offer opportunity to learn from mistakes, not just blindly follow existing language.

Hoy, Cory comenta las conclusiones que ha sacado de la reunión:

"The Broadcast Treaty is a proposal from a WIPO Subcommittee that's supposedly about stopping "signal theft." But along the way, this proposal has turned into a huge, convoluted hairball that threatens to make the PC illegal, trash the public domain, break copyleft and put a Broadcast Flag on the Internet. The treaty negotiation process is unbelievably convoluted and hard-to-follow, and they've just wrapped up the latest round in Geneva. But for the first time, a really large group of "civil society" orgs were accredited to attend. This is the first time that a really exhaustive peek inside a WIPO treaty negotiation has ever been published."

Y de todo ello, Cory Doctorow y sus compañeros (Wendy Seltzer y David Tannenbaum) han preparado un resumen exhaustivo, que ha sido puesto en la red para que cualquiera pueda acceder a él: mirror en EFF.org y mirror en Public-Domain.org

Además:

Documentos de la EFF acerca de la reunión de la WIPO sobre el Tratado sobre Difusión propuesto.

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escrito por Carpanta en Junio 9, 2004 09:49 PM