[Fwd: Dear Friends: Regarding WIPO]

[iriXx <iriXx@iriXx.org>]

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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