What's wrong with innovators and creators having a day at WIPO?
Our rabid IP-hating friends over at KEI are up in arms because someone at WIPO dared to suggest that it might be a good idea to set aside a day where actual innovators and creators get a chance to interact with and speak with international delegates to WIPO and with WIPO staff.
Predictably, Mike Masnick over at TechDirt could be counted on to amplify and exaggerate this idea, calling it an "IP Maximalist Agenda Day," and asserting that for some reason public interest groups would be locked out of the event.
An Example of How Internet Piracy Harms Creators
Over at the Huffington Post (which I hate to link to), there is a good piece about how Internet piracy harms small, independent creators, in this case an independent movie producer.
Some excerpts:
Over half of Internet users admit to pirating movies. As a result, broadcasters and distributors are paying less money for content. In fact, in the last five years dozens of major movie companies, including Paramount Vantage, Fine Line, Miramax, Bob Yari and MGM have effectively stopped making and buying films all together.
Hollywood Robbery
Tonight on CNBC is the premier of a new episode of Crime, Inc. entitled "Hollywood Robbery," which is all about the problem of copyright piracy.
Here's a link to the show details on the CNBC website.
Google Acknowledges the Piracy Problem
The WIPO and North Korea Matter
2,000 new top level domains?
Next Round of Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations July 2-10, 2012
It's been announced that the next round of Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations will be held in San Diego July 2-10, 2012.
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