WIPO

For the first time in WIPO history, the body that creates the world's copyright treaties is attempting to write a copyright treaty dedicated to protecting the interests of copyright users, not just copyright owners.

Boing Boing 2009

WIPO is supposed to be making treaties that protect creators.

- Boing Boing 2006

WIPO is at link, and has a searchable site listing treaties.

Alert! WIPO Treaty Proposal to give broadcasters IP rights over content! 2006

WIPO is the entity that gave us notice-and-takedown, which is now embedded in Europe through the EUCD and in the USA through the DMCA.

Boing Boing: July 9, 2006 - July 15, 2006 Archives 2006

WIPO is the UN agency that creates copyright treaties -- it has the same relationship to bad copyright law that Mordor has to evil.

Boing Boing: November 5, 2006 - November 11, 2006 Archives 2006

If that wasn't bad enough, the US contingent at WIPO is pushing to have the treaty expanded to cover the Net.

Alert! WIPO Treaty Proposal to give broadcasters IP rights over content! 2006

We demand TRANSPARENCY within WIPO and strongly reject any kind of disproportionate representation.

Boing Boing: March 6, 2005 - March 12, 2005 Archives 2005

Yet, we call for an immediate PARTICIPATION of civil society and consumer-interest non-governmental organizations (NGOs) within WIPO's activities.

Boing Boing: March 6, 2005 - March 12, 2005 Archives 2005

If that wasn't bad enough, the US contingent at WIPO is pushing to have the treaty expanded to cover the Net.

Boing Boing: September 18, 2005 - September 24, 2005 Archives 2005

My colleague Pedro de Paranaguá Moniz, a Brazilian copyright scholar, has drafted an excellent manifestor for braod reform in WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization.

Boing Boing: March 6, 2005 - March 12, 2005 Archives 2005