The thursday morning session starts with the Chairman’s announcement that, as the discussion of the individual proposals is nearing its end (we’re well into the US proposal, and after that only that of the Friends of Development is left), he will seek to draft a list of topics that have been discussed or are to Read more »
Being steeped in WIPO stuff for the moment (I think there’s IP on my shirt), it happened that the topic of the prospective Broadcasting Treaty came up in a number of conversations. Coincidentally (I swear), BoingBoing has an interview with a US Copyright official. Until now, the US have generally shown themselves strongly in favour Read more »
Now Brazil is taking apart the US proposal, and sparks are certainly flying. Where the proposal waxes lyrical about economic growth, the Brazilians remind the delegates that economic growth is not really within the mandate of WIPO. This is a nice twist on the well-established US tactic of claiming that development issues in copyright and Read more »
The PCDA procedure is pretty clear by now. They’re going through proposals one by one, with delegations and NGOs commenting only on the proposals they actually have something to say about, other than “we agree”. While the confusion is nowhere near the degree it reached during great parts of last year’s IIM series, discussing about Read more »