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id="internal-source-marker_0.7211052905768156" style="font-size:
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baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">I thought I should acquaint
you with a real problem we are having in Geneva - The
Secretariat at WIPO is clearly looking to insert itself as a
player in Internet governance by trying to create a broad agenda
on intermediary liability in both trademark and copyright
policy.</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none;
vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">On June 8</span><span
style="font-size: 6.6pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap; ">th</span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style:
normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none;
vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">, in an </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.copyrightsummit.com/2011/06/08/video-of-the-keynote-conversationglobal-perspectives-on-ip-and-copyright-%E2%80%93-the-role-of-international-organisations/"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
255); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">interview</span></a><span
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normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none;
vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> (24</span><span
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0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap; ">th</span><span
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background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style:
normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none;
vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> minute) at
the World Copyright Summit, the Director General said that the
copyright agenda at WIPO:</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br>
<div style="margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom:
0pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight:
normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
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pre-wrap; ">“… tends to be a negative one. It tends to be
looking at the exceptions, the limitations, and the other ways
of not having intellectual property. I’m very keen to see us
coming back with a positive agenda for intellectual property.”
</span></div>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none;
vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none;
vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The IFLA,
WBU, eIFL and CCIA </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IFLA-EIFL-WBU-and-CCIA-Letter-to-WIPO-Director-General-Francis-Gurry-June-2011.pdf"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
255); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">objected
in writing</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt;
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transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;
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baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> and asked for clarification
of the DG’s position on 13</span><span style="font-size: 6.6pt;
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transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;
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super; white-space: pre-wrap; ">th</span><span style="font-size:
11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color:
transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;
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baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> June. At a meeting with the
DG he was defensive and dismissive of our concerns, noting that
“making you [NGOs] happy is not my priority.”</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none;
vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none;
vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">In the same
interview (about 7m20s), on the subject of Internet intermediary
liability shields, he was asked if he believed reform of
intermediary liability protection regimes in the Internet
Treaties was necessary, he said “</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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<div style="margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom:
0pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight:
normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space:
pre-wrap; ">“Yes… I think it’s essential, it’s key, but I
don’t think we’re in a position, anyone’s in a position to
impose solutions in this area. We have to work out solutions,
I think, by dialogue. It’s necessary for the intermediaries –
the telcos, the ISPs – to come together with the content
providers, we have to have that dialogue …”</span></div>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none;
vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">When asked if
WIPO would be willing to “lead the way” in creating “meaningful
dialogue” that might “lead to some new frameworks?” He said that
this was a part of </span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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<div style="margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom:
0pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight:
normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space:
pre-wrap; ">“… bringing WIPO into the 21</span><span
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0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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century … it is a terribly important thing for us to do … we
are trying to stimulate that discussion, we are trying to move
the member-states … if we are able to stimulate a discussion
about the profound consequences of the digital environment for
the financing of culture in the 21</span><span
style="font-size: 6.6pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap; ">st</span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
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century … it will become evident that the intermediaries are a
key to the future solution.” </span></div>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The DG likes
what WIPO calls "stakeholder dialogues" - where key stakeholders
on opposite sides of an issue meet under WIPO’s auspices, with
WIPO playing an arbitration/convening role to discuss issues of
disagreement in hopes of creating a breakthrough. These
processes then report back to member-state diplomats (most of
whom are general foreign-service people with no substantive
expertise in the issues). WIPO's efforts in doing this have so
far been failures which have come with a high price at times for
the participants.</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none;
vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">With respect
to the visually impaired and their access to books, a
stakeholder dialogue was convened at the request of the
member-states in the copyright committee at WIPO, composed of
the visually impaired and publishers the to try and get the
parties to find practical solutions for moving books around
(homepage </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.visionip.org/portal/en/index.html"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(14, 63,
170); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">here</span></a><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style:
normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none;
vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">). This has
now largely </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.worldblindunion.org/en/news-events/latest-news/Pages/default.aspx"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(14, 63,
170); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">collapsed</span></a><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style:
normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none;
vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">, because the
blind found that the publishers were using it to sabotage
attempts to get a binding solution to a big problem - less than
5% of books are available in blind-accessible versions. The
Stakeholder Dialogue was being used to justify no binding norms
by publishers and publisher-friendly governments.</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold;
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vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">WIPO and
Intermediary Liability in Copyright</span><span
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<span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';
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</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight:
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pre-wrap; ">The Secretariat are very active in this area, quite
out of the blue. They undertaken a series of panel discussions
and released two new reports. Because they have no member-state
mandate, they are organising these meetings in combination with
the Internet Society. </span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">So far, they
have or are:</span>
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Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;
font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Held
a </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://groups.itu.int/wsis-forum2011/Agenda.aspx?event=event_234"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight:
normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">joint session</span></a><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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with ISOC at the WSIS Forum 2011 where the only speaker
other than WIPO and ISOC was a person from the Korean
Copyright office extolling the virtues of their
three-strikes laws. Many present objected to such an
unbalanced panel. WIPO promised their subsequent panels
would be balanced.</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;
font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Held
a joint </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_id=23647"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight:
normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">side event </span></a><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">on
</span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/copyright/en/wipo_isoc_ge_11/wipo_isoc_ge_11_inf_1_prov.pdf"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight:
normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">Wednesday 21st June</span></a><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">
where there were no intermediaries on the panel once again -
but the President of HADOPI and </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/copyright/en/wipo_isoc_ge_11/wipo_isoc_ge_11_ref_02_shapiro.pdf"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight:
normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">Ted Shapiro </span></a><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">of
the film industry both were, pushing a heavy copyright
enforcement agenda and endorsing WIPO work in this area.
This meeting was held during the Standing Committee on
Copyright and Related Rights as it undertakes a two-year
process of looking into limitations and exceptions for the
visually impaired, education, and libraries. Given the
agenda in L&Es, you would think WIPO would spend its
time helping member-states understand those issues better,
rather than trying to introduce new issues. There is a
report of the meeting </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1RXLjTt_yB4dm9UETYuVqaD2EOQh0FebPNngQ3FmL2yw"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight:
normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">here</span></a><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> by
Matthias Langenegger - CCIA was invited at the last minute
but declined to participate because the panel was so
unbalanced; WIPO then went to EFF who declined for the same
reason.</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;
font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
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none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Attended
a 20-country intergovernmental meeting in Thailand in May
where WIPO admitted they had persuaded the organisers to put
Internet intermediary liability on the agenda. I have asked
for more information on this meeting from WIPO, but I
haven’t received any details.</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;
font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Published
two reports on Intermediary liability, available </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.wipo.int/copyright/en/internet_intermediaries/index.html"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight:
normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">here</span></a><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">.</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;
font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Organising
a joint event at the Internet Governance Forum in Kenya -
details </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/chronocontact/?chronoformname=WSProposals2011View&wspid=79"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0,
0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight:
normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">here</span></a><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">. </span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none;
vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none;
vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">In
trademarks, the Secretariat </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="about:blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: transparent;
font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: pre-wrap; ">proposed</span></a><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style:
normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none;
vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> (see paras
69-71, page 11) in March 2011 that the Standing Committee on
Trademarks should “…develop agreed standards for the
determination of the presence or absence of secondary liability
of Internet intermediaries …” This proposal was </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ccianet.org/index.asp%3Fsid=5%26artid=213%26evtflg=False"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
255); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration:
underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">defeated</span></a><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style:
normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none;
vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">, thanks in
part at least to the work of </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cccianet.org/"><span style="font-size: 11pt;
font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color:
transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline;
vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">CCIA</span></a><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style:
normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none;
vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> and its
member companies interacting with member-states but the
Director-General made clear that he will not give up – as
according to him a ‘public policy solution’ at the international
level to the ‘problems to be solved’ is necessary. </span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none;
vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none;
vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Given these
statements and activities, the interest in regulating the
Internet for trademark owners and pushing the issue of Internet
intermediaries in copyright cannot be anything other than an
orchestrated and deliberate campaign to create a role in
Internet policy for WIPO despite a the lack of member-state
support for it – or, frankly, much by way of expertise: a
Director-level staff member recently asked a group of Internet
intermediaries the question “What is Web 2.0?”</span></div>
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margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
font-family: Times; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;
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</span></div>
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margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
font-family: Times; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;
font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space:
pre-wrap; ">Bottom line: We need more NGOs attending WIPO's
copyright and trademark meetings, from more countries. We need
more exposure of what is going on publicly. </span></div>
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margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
font-family: Times; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;
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</span></div>
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any of you help?</span></font></div>
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