Dear Friends: Regarding WIPO

(Forwarded from Foundation for Free Information Infrastructure - UK list)

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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 21:16:30 +0100
From: iriXx <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]

further to the WIPO petition on open standards in computing, this is a
message from Tom Barger, consultant to Senator Rick Boucher:

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Dear Irixx:
Please distribute to concerned allies. The WIPO meeting is scheduled for
Nov. 3-5, 2003. Please see the link

http://www.wipo.int/documents/en/meetings/2003/sccr/pdf/sccr_10_2.pdf

You will wish to stay informed as to the Secretariat's agenda, which has
been hijacked by US Intellectual property lawyers.

Lois Boland of the US Patent Office has ruled out-of-order the discussion of
open collaborative development models.

http://www.cptech.org/ip/wipo/kamil-idris-7july2003.pdf

It may seem to most of you that the issue boils down to a conflict between
Microsoft/BSA vs. open information protocols. But to us who toil (with love)
in the arts, it is just another reiteration on behalf of Jay Berman and the
IFPI to cherry-pick those rules of various countries which suit the agenda
of the RIAA for perpetual copyrights.  The RIAA and IFPI for a long time
have been going back and forth between the European States and the US
Congress with a campaign to "standardize" international trade agreements vis
a vis cultural copyrights.

We have long endured the catch-phrase that proclaims the music business to
be "the canary in the coal mine." But we artists did not wish it so. We
recognize that serious scientific issues of peer review and database access
are threatened by music. We hope to convey to our friends in the EU that
many American artists do indeed lend our name to the Creative Commons
license. We do not consider ourselves to be well-represented by either the
Copyright Office, Mary Beth Peters or James Billington.

The good news from America comes on two fronts.

Howard Dean has agreed to create a "Dream Team" to create input on
regulatory communication policy to be chaired by Lawrence Lessig.

See the link

http://www.deanforamerica.com/site/PageServer?pagename=NAN&JServSessionIdr002=sj75azeqh1.app194a 


<http://www.deanforamerica.com/site/PageServer?pagename=NAN&JServSessionIdr002=sj75azeqh1.app194a> 





Rep. Rick Boucher (9th-Va.) has drafted an open letter to his Congressional
colleagues and FCC Chairman Michael Powell that proclaims "hands off the
internet."

See the link:

http://www.tombarger.com/copyrightreform/index4.html
<http://www.tombarger.com/copyrightrefom.html>





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-- Bruce Graham


Musicians say No to RIAA Persecution and Prosecution of Music Lovers!

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"Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are
subtle and will piss on your computer."
-- Bruce Graham


Musicians say No to RIAA Persecution and Prosecution of Music Lovers!

Sign the petition at http://www.copyleftmedia.org.uk/justsayno/


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