There has been a certain amount of noise here in Canada recently in an attempt to convince the government to ratify the latest round of World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) agreements. The Canadian government should resist. The WIPO view of the world is being increasingly dominated by the needs of major publishers and broadcasters (most of whom, I might add, are not Canadian, just as they are not Indian or Brazilian). And the commercial media appears to be playing hardball; there are alegations that NGO documents countering the proposals are being stolen and of a "cooking of the deliberative process". In my view, WIPO - like WTO - is a deeply flawed process, subversive of democracy and generally running counter to the will of the population.
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