Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Boing Boing: Access to Knowledge treaty has a site
Boing Boing: Access to Knowledge treaty has a site: "Access to Knowledge treaty has a site
The Access to Knowledge treaty is an effort to get the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to start acting like a humanitarian UN agency, instead of an industry consortium solely concerned with extending copyright, patents and trademark. The treaty calls on WIPO to harmonize international law to ease the tasks of educators, archivists and those who provide access to disabled people -- today, the laws for these tasks vary from nation to nation, making international cooperation legally difficult if not impossible.
An open group of international non-governmental organizations, governments, scholars, acticists and individuals has been planning the treaty for some months now and we've finally got a web-site where all of our work is being documented and published, with calls to action and other ways to get involved. Anyone can register and add material to the site."
The Access to Knowledge treaty is an effort to get the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to start acting like a humanitarian UN agency, instead of an industry consortium solely concerned with extending copyright, patents and trademark. The treaty calls on WIPO to harmonize international law to ease the tasks of educators, archivists and those who provide access to disabled people -- today, the laws for these tasks vary from nation to nation, making international cooperation legally difficult if not impossible.
An open group of international non-governmental organizations, governments, scholars, acticists and individuals has been planning the treaty for some months now and we've finally got a web-site where all of our work is being documented and published, with calls to action and other ways to get involved. Anyone can register and add material to the site."
