From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

As the tide ebbs....

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=956

"Negotiators in Switzerland have agreed on 24 points nominally aimed
at making Intellectual Property issues easier for developing countries to
deal with.

In order to get the deal done the U.S. had to back away from a hard line it
has taken for more than a decade. It is certain that business interests
played a major part in making this happen.

Writes James Love, Chairman of the Union for the Public Domain, "WIPO
is finally entering the new century, and responding to the growing demand
for reforms, and a more balanced approach to intellectual property
protection."

The agreement sets the stage for June negotiations that will consider a
proposed treaty on access to knowledge, which Love says would be a radical
departure "from WIPO's longstanding efforts to focus largely on
expanding the scope and enforcement of intellectual property
rights.""


Note:

"proposed treaty on access to knowledge".

Finally the reality of copyright patents & restrictions to works of the
mind becomes clear to more (if not all).

Human knowledge & culture is owned by all humans & can be
"rented out" by a gov to "knowledge landlords" for a
restricted period of time.

Adam

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