Specific ACTIONS of the WG-PCT
Civil Society Statement
Presentation : Plenary Session - 16 July 2003
by Richard Stallman, member of the steering committee.
English: HTML,PDF
( also on PrepCom.Net )
Lobbying with states delegates over the issue of
"Open Source/Free Software" mostly by members of the FSF, the FSF-France and
FST-Europe
(FSF Europe report)
- Raising the issue that only right owners but not creators were
mentionnned in new paragraph 40C.
This point has been included in
the
Statement by Meryem Marzouki on behalf of the whole
Civil Society ( 18 July )
( also at PrepCom.Net )
With regards to intellectual property, we are very concerned to note
that the Declaration of Principles, in keeping with the tendency of the TRIPS agreement,
breaks the delicate balance of article 27 of the UDHR between the rights of authors and
the rights of all people to share in scientific advancement and
its benefits.
Worse still, the Declaration does not even refer to authors or creators,
but only to rights owners.
ACTIONS of the CIVIL SOCIETY
to be completed
For information :
Business Community statements
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