FFII at WIPO meeting, 15 and 16 september 05, Geneva
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WIPO Interactive Session with Non-governmental Organizations (Geneva, September 15, 2005)
Summary
Thursday 15th september: interactive meeting with NGOs
The main organisation present at this meeting were: EFF, FFII, Ficpi, some representatives of the phonographic industry, etc...
The WIPO has started to explain what was their role, basically that they only make proposals for treaties, and only member states are free to sign or not.
The introduction session was followed by some discussions about the future participation of !NGOs and an interesting discussion about "Copyrights on the internet". The various NGO represented there had the opportunity to ask questions notably related to EUCD/DMCA, Broadcast flag, and software patents.
The presentations of WIPO officials were very general and diplomatic.
Regarding the economic side of the impact of their decisions, Sherif Saadallah, executive director of WIPO, said that "economists in the field of impacts of IP were rare and costly", which shows that they are little competent for assessing the economic impacts of extension of rights.
Friday 16th september: IIM/3 and PCIPD/4 meetings
The representative of Brazil battled on formal grounds with the WIPO chair to get the Friends of Development proposal included into the final report.
http://www.wipo.org/edocs/mdocs/mdocs/en/iim_3/iim_3_3_prov_2.pdf
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FFII representatives
- arebenti
- zoobab
