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WIPO PCDA1: Morning of day four and statement by the FSFE

The third day of the Provisional Committee on a Development Agenda (PCDA) for WIPO started with the Brazilian delegation further taking apart the US proposal. Most of the morning session then went to the further discussion of the proposal, during … Continue reading

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Provisional Committee on a Developent Agenda for WIPO, Day Three

The third day of the Provisional Committee on a Development Agenda (PCDA) for WIPO ended right in the middle of the Brazilian statement on the US proposal. After Brazil had already spent 25 minutes of detailed disassembling, the session was … Continue reading

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Provisional Committee on a Developent Agenda for WIPO, Day Two

The second day of the Provisional Committee on a Development Agenda (PCDA) for WIPO is now over, and despite the voiced concerns of many people I spoke to, it did enter substantive discussion. Theoretically the proposal of the African group … Continue reading

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Provisional Committee on a Developent Agenda for WIPO, Day 1

Day one of the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Provisional Committee on a Development Agenda (PCDA) for WIPO is over. It started rather slow because the selection of the chair turned out to be highly controversial — the … Continue reading

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Internet Governance Forum, End of Day 2 and Conclusions

The second and final day of the consultations on the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) that was mandated by Kofi Annan following the conclusions of the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), is now over. If you wish … Continue reading

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Internet Governance Forum Day 2: More discussions and a statement by FSFE

The second day of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Geneva has started just like the last day has ended, with an open discussion on where, how and in which form the IGF should take place. After hearing what has … Continue reading

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Internet Governance Forum Day 1: Many discussions, few conclusions

Having been mandated by the Tunis phase of the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the first day of the consultations on the establishment of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is coming to an end in Geneva. … Continue reading

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Following the Consultations on the Internet Govenance Forum (IGF) in Geneva

The United Nations premises in Geneva currently host the preliminary consultations on the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) which came out of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).  Right now the discussions mostly focus on the question of defining … Continue reading

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GPLv3: Official start of the revision process

MIT lecture room 10-250 in Boston just saw the release of the the first discussion draft for version 3 of the world’s first Copyleft and most used Free Software license, the GNU General Public License (GPL). As expected, it contains … Continue reading

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LACFREE 2005

As you may know, I am currently in Recife and Olinda in the Brazilian Northeast. While most people come here for vacation on some of the most beautiful beaches in the world, I hardly found time to enjoy any of … Continue reading

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