Towards a "World Intellectual Wealth Organisation" - FSFE

Towards a "World Intellectual Wealth Organisation" - FSFE
Towards a
“World Intellectual Wealth Organisation”
Supporting the Geneva Declaration
The
Geneva
Declaration
is an impressive step towards the creation of a broad
coalition of people, organisations and countries
demanding that the international community re-think the
goals and mechanisms for awarding monopoly control over different kinds of
knowledge. It offers many constructive, concrete suggestions for changes
in WIPO goals, policies and priorities, and provides ample and insightful
arguments for redesign of the copyright and patent bargains to better
serve the public interest of all of humankind.
We are convinced that new answers sometimes require new questions,
not more careful repetition of old questions. A World Intellectual
Property Organisation will always, understandably, lean towards
applying the pre-selected tool-set of monopolisation that it
refers to as Intellectual Property; a term that we find to be
ideologically charged and dangerously oblivious to the significant
differences that exist between the many areas of law that it tries
to subsume.
While it may look at better, possibly more socially sustainable
ways of granting ownership-like monopolies over different forms of
knowledge, WIPO will not have an easy time looking for alternative
solutions. WIPO is not what we need.
We need a World Intellectual Wealth Organisation, dedicated to the
research and promotion of novel and imaginative ways to encourage
the production and dissemination of knowledge. Granting limited
monopolies and limited control over some kinds of knowledge may be
part of this new organisation's tool-set, but not the only one,
and maybe not even the most important one.
We endorse and support the
Geneva
Declaration
, and invite its drafters, signatories, and the
United Nations to start thinking now not only about what the role
of WIPO should be, but rather what kind of organisation we need in
its place.
References
Proposal by Argentina and Brazil for the establishment of a
development agenda for WIPO:
Signatories
Organisations
ANSOL - Associação Nacional para o Software Livre
APRIL
Asociación Software Libre y Patrimonio Intelectual Libre
Association for Free Software (AFFS)
Assoli - Associazione Software Libero
Cellularity Limited - clustered solid state FLOSS systems
Cosenza Hacklab
Free Software Corsica
Free Software Foundation Europe
Free Software Foundation of India
Free Software Foundation Latin America
Free Software Foundation, United States
Free Software User Group Italia
FriBit
Fundación Conocimiento Libre
Global Alternate Information Applications (GAIA), India
GNU-Darwin Distribution
Hipatia
HMN Napoli Hacklab
indietorrent.org Digital Music Marketplace
Infusion Systems Ltd.
IP Charter
IT-Politisk Forening
La Fundación Vía Libre
LibreTrend
Linux User Group Bozen-Bolzano-Bulsan
Movimento Costozero
Multitude
Netzwerk Neue Medien
OpenCraft
OrionRobots
Projeto Software Livre Brasil
Stichting NLnet
Stichting Vrijschrift
UKUUG - the UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group
UN WSIS - Civil Society Patents, Copyright, Trademarks (PCT) Working Group
Verein zur Förderung Freier Software
Wikimedia Italia
WilhelmTux
Ynternet.org - Free communication for communities
Individuals
Abdel-Karim Mardini
Adam Johnston
Alessandro Rubini
Alex García Giménez
Alex Hudson
Alexander Valyalkin
Alexandr Kazda
Alexandre Oliva
Allan Irving
Allen Elledge
Andrea Russo
André Ockers
André Proulx
Andrés Dimitriu
Angel Sullca
Anivar Aravind
Anne Østergaard
Antonio Prado
Arnau Fuentes
Arthur B.
Aurélien Desbrières
Axel Mulder
Beatriz Busaniche
Benjamin Pritchard
Benoît Sibaud
Bernhard Reiter
Björn Schießle
Bob Trower
Bryan Michael Baldwin
Bry1ie 0xley
Carlo Buonauro
Carlos Atarés
Christian Hagen
Christian Selig
Christophe Vieren
Claitom Sega
Claus Reheis
Colin Macdonald
Daniel Molina García
Daniel P. Valentine
Daniel Staple
Daniele Maria Bertin
Dariusz Jakubowski
David Ayers
Davide Valenti
Denis Derman
Diego Saravia
Edward Welbourne
Emerson French
Enrique A. Chaparro
Fabio Bossi
Federico Heinz
Felipe de Sousa Nascimento
Félix Hauri
Felix Pahl
Filippo Rusconi
Francis MUGUET
Franco Iacomella
Frédéric Couchet
Geoffrey Lehr
Georg Greve
George Adly
Georges Cerrand
Giacomo Poderi
Giancarlo Zinoni
Gianluca Tararbra
Grace Lloyd
Graham Seaman
Gergely MÁTÉ
Gustavo A. Zanetti
Heiki Ojasild
Henrik Sandklef
Herminia Blesa
Hervé Le Crosnier
Hugo Roy
Irucka Embry
Isaac Arias González
Ivar Castro
Jahzeel Salmerón Abarca
Jean-Marc Le Peuvédic
Jeffrey G. Hankins Jr.
Jeroen Dekkers
Jonas Oberg
Jonathan Grant
Jonathan Rothwell
Jordi Burguet Castell
Jose Andres Diz Alonso
Jose C. Varela
José Luis M. Moreno
Josh Triplett
Joshua Gay
Juan Carlos Gentile
Julio Cesar Serrano Ortuno
Kaleb Phillpott
Karl Berry
Karsten Gerloff
Koen Torfs
Kyle Isom
Kyller Costa Gorgônio
Lacraia
Lars Noodén
Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Leopoldo Ghielmetti
Luca Tius
Luis de Bethencourt Guimerá
MJ Ray
MWAKALI Jackson Araali
Macarena Cruz
Malla Pollack
Marc SCHAEFER
Marcelo D'Elia Branco
Marco Ciurcina
Marko Dimjašević
Maria Jesús Ruiz
Marie-Magdeleine Bechier
Markus Beckedahl
Markus Fischer
Martin Gollowitzer
Martin Olivera
Matija Šuklje
Matthias Kirschner
Meneleo John O. Mendoza, IV
Michael Ageeb
Michael Kesper
Michael L. Love
Michel Roche
Michele Ferrari
Mohamad Rashad
Myriam Schweingruber
Nathan S. Wessel
Nicholas Hill
Noah Slater
Ole Tange
Олга К. Нанова (Olga K. Nanova)
Omar Kaminski
Pablo Machón
Patrick Ohnewein
Pavel Kačer
Piero Trono
Rady W. Fahmy
Ramprasad B
Raphael Payen
Reinhard Müller
Renich Bon Ciric
Riccardo Murri
Richard Stallman
Rik van Riel
Robin Placzek
Romel Sandoval
Rory V. Filgueras
Russell McOrmond
Samuel Alvarado Agama
Sandro Santilli
Sean Lundquist
Sebastien Chassot
Shane Beller
Silke Helfrich
Simon Ruggier
Simone Piccardi
Stas D. Myasnikov
Stefano Barale
Stefano Maffulli
Steven C. Morreale
Sébastien DINOT
Sławomir Domagała
Théo Bondolfi
Tiberius Brastaviceanu
Tom Cowap
Tomas Nordin
Tony Bassette
Umit Uygur
Vesselin Mladenov
Vladimir O. Makarov (Владимир Олегович Макаров)
Volker Dormeyer
Will Fris
Wojciech Gac
Wong Onn Chee
Xander Kaempfer-Maurer
Xavier Reina
Yannick Gingras
Yasmin R. Defouni
If you wish to see your name or the name of your organisation
added to this list, please contact
web@lists.fsfe.org
Subscribe to our email updates
Our experts inform you about current news, events, activities, and how you can contribute.