[governance] Global Pharma Calls On ICANN To Act Against Online Counterfeits

[Riaz K Tayob]

Well WHO did not have a mandate to work on counterfeits. It established 
a task team, hired the head of BigPharma (industry body) to draw up the 
Legislative Guidelines, funded "official" WHO meetings with WHO member 
states, held side meetings at the WHO Annual Meetings, and only stopped 
after its pants were pulled down on a lack of mandate by those poor 
countries... see Third World Network if you want a preview of 
forthcoming attractions. Shameless is the word that springs to mind...

Time for techies to get "political", eh?

On 2012/08/02 01:35 PM, Fouad Bajwa wrote:
>
> ICANN lacks the legitimacy to do anything in this regard. Its 
> contracted parties can possibly do something such as verisign that has 
> taken down a number of .com domains in collaboration with the US 
> authorities on various occasions. The pharma guys are just trying to 
> get some limelight by calling out to ICANN and trying to attempt a bit 
> of harassing the domain community by going to WIPO that most of the 
> times appears bewildered on IG or open access issues. The WIPO itself 
> is yet to face the surges to emerge from the newGTLD process.
>
> On the other hand counterfeit drugs of any sort should be countered 
> but its the payment, postal, freight and delivery systems that require 
> moderation and not just Internet.
>
> Somebody must tell the pharma people that ICANN is not the Viagara of 
> the Internet or the means to stop counterfeit trade of drugs, its just 
> a .0000001% of the pharma industry's incapacity to keep its business 
> clean and no business by far is clean!
>
> Fouad Bajwa
>


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