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<meta name="author-name-1" content="Karsten Gerloff"/>
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<title>FSFE - Written submission on the project on open collaborative
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projects, contained in document CDIP/6/6 at WIPO CDIP/6</title>
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<a href="/activities/un/">United Nations</a> / <a href="/activities/wipo/">WIPO</a>
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<h1>Written submission on the project on open collaborative
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projects, contained in document CDIP/6/6</h1>
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<h4>Committee on Development and Intellectual Property: <a href="http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_id=19688">Sixth Session</a>, Geneva, November 22, 2010 to November 26, 2010. </h4>
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<p id="introduction">Summary: FSFE welcomes the orientation WIPO is taking
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towards the study of open and collaborative models but notes that the list
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of projects to be studied is incomplete for it doesn't include Free Software
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nor projects like Creative Commons or Wikipedia which have the longer experience
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in the field of collaborative project.The inclusion of such projects is
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necessary to have a good level of insight in the topic.</p>
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<h2>Written submission by Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)</h2>
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<p>We highly welcome the proposal for a project on open collaborative
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projects, contained in document CDIP/6/6. We believe that WIPO will in
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future have an important role in this area, among other things in
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advising member states on how obtain the maximum benefits for their
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citizens and companies from such models.</p>
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<p>We appreciate that the project is proposed to be structured as an
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interactive platform, and hope that it will be open for
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contributions from all stakeholders. However, the selection of
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collaborative project to be studied in depth strikes us as odd. We
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are deeply surprised not to find Free Software (also known as open
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source) or any Free Software projects among the the collaborative
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projects to be investigated.</p>
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<p>Free Software predates most of the projects listed in the proposal
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for detailed investigation by a full two decades. Rather than
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being structured around a single company or entity, it has grown
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into a large and complex ecosystem with numerous different methods
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for collaboration, and is at the cutting edge of the latest
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developments in copyright and patent law, as well as in
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standardisation. Bringing together both global corporations and
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individual developers on hugely complicated technical projects,
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with the GNU/Linux operating system alone poised to underpin a 50
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billion USD economy in 2011, Free Software is likely the most
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mature example of an open collaborative project that is currently
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available to us. At the same time, it is exceedingly well
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researched, and huge amounts of data are publicly available.</p>
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<p>Similar considerations apply for other projects, such as the Creative
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Commons model for copyright licensing and the online encyclopedia
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Wikipedia.</p>
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<p>We are therefore of the view that a project like the project like the
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one proposed in document CDIP/6/6 would be highly incomplete if it did
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not take these world-renowned examples of collaborative projects into
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consideration. Unless it does so, this project will not deliver the
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level of insight which member states rightly hope to reap from their
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investment in this project.</p>
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<timestamp>$Date: 2007-09-29 19:47:41 +0200 (Sat, 29 Sep 2007) $ $Author: gerloff $</timestamp>
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