It urged WIPO to strengthen its assistance to developing countries and to convene a ministerial conference for LDCs every three years. |
With rulings like this, big name companies will quickly sidestep WIPO in favour of blustering cease-and-desist letters and legal action through the courts. |
We believe that the new bill goes further than the WIPO and UNESCO model provisions because it defines indigenous dress as more than an expression of folklore. |
Globally the WTO and WIPO police the regime with an iron hand, while wealthy countries extract payments from the poor for using knowledge already prised at birth from its creators. |
The WIPO broadcasters' treaty would severely maul and undermine the public domain, by effectively blocking off large segments for private profit. |
In the opinion of the representative of WIPO, would such atomization engender as many regimes and exceptions as there were different national contexts? |