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WIPO Pressured to Kill Meeting on Open Source
panthan writes "The Washington Post has has an article about a proposed meeting of the WIPO concerning open source having been removed from consideration, apparently due to pressure from the US State Department and the USPTO. 'In short order, lobbyists from Microsoft-funded trade groups were pushing officials at the State Department and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to squelch the meeting. One lobbyist, Emery Simon with the Business Software Alliance, said his group objected to the suggestion in the proposal that overly broad or restrictive intellectual-property rights might in some cases stunt technological innovation and economic growth.'" Lawrence Lessig has some comments.
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OFFTOPIC?!
If anything, this should be labelled Funny, or at the very least left alone. But OFFTOPIC?!
You know, IP.. Internet Protocol... IP Intellectual Property? A jocular mismatching of two different meanings to come to a different conclusion? It's called humour. Jesus.
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