[governance] Human Rights and IGF

William Drake drake at hei.unige.ch
Thu May 31 09:05:52 EDT 2007


Wolfgang,

The question can be answered too: no.
http://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/final_e.htm

Best,

Bill


On 5/31/07 1:23 PM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang"
<wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de> wrote:

> With regard to Human Rights and Internet Governance: We had recently a
> discussion, which included also Andrew McLaughlin from Google, to approach the
> issue from a new perspective.
>  
> Within the WTO Doha Round the ignorance of Intellectual Property Rights is
> seen as a trade barrier. Countries which want to join the WTO have to
> guarantee IPRs. The question could be raised whether the ignorance of Human
> Rights can constitute also a trade barrier?
>  
> Wolfgang




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