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<title>Towards a "World Intellectual Wealth Organisation"</title>
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<p class="tagline">Towards a</p>
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<h1>“World Intellectual Wealth Organisation”</h1>
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<h2>Supporting the Geneva Declaration</h2>
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The <a
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href="http://www.cptech.org/ip/wipo/genevadeclaration.html">Geneva
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Declaration</a> is an impressive step towards the creation of a broad
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coalition of people, organisations and countries<a href="#fn1"
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class="fn">1</a> demanding that the international community re-think the
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goals and mechanisms for awarding monopoly control over different kinds of
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knowledge. It offers many constructive, concrete suggestions for changes
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in WIPO goals, policies and priorities, and provides ample and insightful
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arguments for redesign of the copyright and patent bargains to better
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serve the public interest of all of humankind.
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We are convinced that new answers sometimes require new questions,
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not more careful repetition of old questions. A World Intellectual
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Property Organisation will always, understandably, lean towards
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applying the pre-selected tool-set of monopolisation that it
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refers to as Intellectual Property; a term that we find to be
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ideologically charged and dangerously oblivious to the significant
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differences that exist between the many areas of law that it tries
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to subsume.
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While it may look at better, possibly more socially sustainable
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ways of granting ownership-like monopolies over different forms of
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knowledge, WIPO will not have an easy time looking for alternative
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solutions. WIPO is not what we need.
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We need a World Intellectual Wealth Organisation, dedicated to the
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research and promotion of novel and imaginative ways to encourage
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the production and dissemination of knowledge. Granting limited
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monopolies and limited control over some kinds of knowledge may be
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part of this new organisation's tool-set, but not the only one,
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and maybe not even the most important one.
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We endorse and support the <a
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href="http://www.cptech.org/ip/wipo/genevadeclaration.html">Geneva
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Declaration</a>, and invite its drafters, signatories, and the
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United Nations to start thinking now not only about what the role
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of WIPO should be, but rather what kind of organisation we need in
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its place.
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<h2 id="fn">References</h2>
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Proposal by Argentina and Brazil for the establishment of a
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development agenda for WIPO: <a
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href="http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/govbody/en/wo_ga_31/wo_ga_31_11.pdf">http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/govbody/en/wo_ga_31/wo_ga_31_11.pdf</a>
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<h2>Signatories</h2>
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<signatories/>
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If you wish to see your name or the name of your organisation
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added to this list, please contact <a
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href="mailto:web@lists.fsfe.org">web@lists.fsfe.org</a>.
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