In honor of this week's World Intellectual Property Day, Becky Hogge posted an article she interviewed me for on OpenDemocracy, about the crazy shenanigans at the World Intellectual Propery Organization (WIPO), a UN agency where dirty tricks have been used to stop public interest groups from joining the discussion.
Delegates whose tentative grasp of the meanings of new technologies often came from close collaboration with incumbent lobbyists such as the National Association of Broadcasters suddenly found they were being asked to pick sides.
One of the more controversial activities of the IP-reform lobbyists since their arrival at Wipo, Doctorow remarks, has been the spontaneous publication on the web of impressionistic notes taken from the various negotiations through at-table blogging.
(Thanks, Becky!)
