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UN Bigwig: The Web Should Have Been Patented and Licensed

Posted by timothy on from the surely-he's-been-hypnotized-by-the-yes-men dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Cory Doctorow over at BoingBoing has unearthed an amazing video where the head of WIPO, the UN agency responsible for 'promoting' intellectual property, suggests that Tim Berners-Lee should have patented HTML and licensed it to all users. Amazingly this is done on camera and in front of the head of CERN and the Internet Society, who look on in disbelief."

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  1. WIPO == Idiots by zabzonk · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I worked at WIPO as a consultant for a year - a bigger collection of clueless f*ckwits would be hard to find.