[bestbits] [governance] Call for Participation: Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, 2015

Wed May 20 15:02:01 EDT 2015

+ 1 on Claudio...it is such a bad use of resources, brain power, attention,
etc

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Claudio Ruiz <claudio at derechosdigitales.org
> wrote:

> Strong +1 to Anriette as well.
>
> It’s heartbreaking to me to receive so much emails about the definition of
> MS on every single thread someone put on the list no matter whether the
> thread is exactly that or one of the most important initiatives on
> copyright and public interest around the world such as the Global Congress.
>
>
> There are people who apparently really enjoy to have this long discussions
> on long emails threads transforming everything into a discussion on MS or
> ICANN or, lately, what public interest means.
>
> Personally speaking, it would be a better use of my time to use our
> BestBits mailing list to have substantive and productive exchange of ideas,
> experiences and points of view, rather than to convert it as a public space
> for a handful of people with apparently time and resources to share endless
> discussions about they think it’s important. And, let me tell you: it isn’t.
>
> —Claudio Ruiz
> derechosdigitales.org | @claudio
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> > On May 19, 2015, at 14:13, Anriette Esterhuysen <anriette at apc.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear all
> >
> > I am writing against my better judgement, but here goes anyway.
> >
> > The Global Congress on IP has been one of the most important spaces were
> > radical civil society has mobilised and strategised against some of the
> > most problematic US-government lead initiatives with regard to impact on
> > access to knowledge in recent years - ACTA and TPP.
> >
> > I have only ever been an observer at the Global Congress (when it was in
> > Cape Town in 2013) but have always learnt a lot, and I really value the
> > work that this community does in WIPO among other spaces. In Africa the
> > Global Congress has collaborated with projects such as the African
> > Access to Knowledge project.. people that we have done really important
> > work with, and who have influenced intellectual property legislation
> > positively. They work with groups such as councils for the blind and
> > visually impaired, and the library community. People that we need in
> > internet governance spaces if we want to build movement for social
> > justice in internet governance.
> >
> > I find it extremely disappointing and distressing that the debate in
> > this thread is not about substantial issues that the Global Congress
> > will address, but about whether it is 'multistakeholder' or not -
> > evolving into yet another set of assertions that everyone who supports
> > the notion of multistakeholder in ANY sense at all is by definition
> > coopted by empire.
> >
> > Why not write about substantive issues, and about how to pursue a social
> > justice agenda around the issues that are internet-related that the
> > Global Congress will address?
> >
> > Anriette
> >
> >
> >
> > On 19/05/2015 18:51, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> >> On 19/05/2015 5:50 am, parminder wrote:
> >>> Coming to the context of the series of congresses on 'Intellectual
> >>> property and public interest', here is the list of participants
> >>> <
> http://infojustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Participants-Handout1.pdf
> >of
> >>> the 2011 Congress . Just one big business participant - Google among
> >>> scores and scores others. And none in program committee, or among the
> >>> hosing group or funders (except one, again Google, which is certainly
> >>> an oddity, perhaps explainable but wont go there right now) . No way
> >>> to me this looks like a multistakeholder or MS conference, as we have
> >>> come to understand the term in the Internet governance space.
> >>
> >> Apples and oranges; the Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest
> >> never purported to be a multi-stakeholder event; it is closer to a Best
> >> Bits meeting or your Internet Social Forum, both of which are civil
> >> society only, than it is to something like the IGF.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jeremy Malcolm
> >> Senior Global Policy Analyst
> >> Electronic Frontier Foundation
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> >>
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> >>
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> >>
> >>
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