[ga] Re: [Ecommerce] UNESCO Report on Cultural Diversity Convention is out...

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Manon and all,

  Your right Manoan, it isn't even close to being ready for prime time...

Manon Ress wrote:

> ...but maybe not quite ready for prime time?
>
> The Preliminary Report of the Director-General containing Preliminary
> Drafts of a Convention (March 2005) is on UNESCO site.
>
> See: Preliminary Report of the Director-General containing two
> Preliminary Drafts of a Convention
> Document Type   Rapport
> File 1  CLT-2005-CONF-203-CLD-4-Eng.pdf
> Publication Date        03 Mar 2005
> http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=25926&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
>
> This document has been sent out to Member States exactly 7 months before
> the  next session of the General Conference (3-21 October 2005) to be
> within the legal timetable to move toward a Convention. Some people
> wonder why there's so much rushing here. it does not seem quite ready
> for prime time.
>
> The document includes the DG's preliminary report recording what has
> taken place since 2003.  It will also includes 2 appendices but for now
> you can only read appendix 1 which is the "composite text".  The draft
> convention is in 3 parts that are at different stages of completion.
> The Preamble was not examined at the Experts Meeting (Jan 31-Feb 11) and
> has not been changed.  In Paris, the Plenary authorized the Chair to
> draft a "consolidated document" which will come later as Appendix 2.
>
> Part I has over 100 footnotes and many brackets, Part II has new
> articles, Part III includes comments from the plenary.
>
> Nothing has changed for the better regarding the push to make this
> convention originally ABOUT THE PROTECTION OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY into
> yet another international agreement to strengthen intellectual property
> rights enforcement.
>
> See for example page 26 New paragraph 3:
> [States Parties] footnote 101 shall ensure [intellectual property rights
> are [fully respected and enforced] according to existing international
> instruments to which States are parties, particularly through the
> development [or strengthening] of measures against piracy. footnote 102
>
> footnote 102: Consistency in references to intellectual property rights
> in the Preamble and in the text of the Convention must be ensures in the
> text if this article is maintained. A question was raised as to the
> concept of "piracy".
>
> Only one question?  well, let's hope there will be more questions
> regarding the 16 mentions of the need to protect or even strengthen
> intellectual property while the proposed text does not mention ANYWHERE
> the need to protect access to knowledge or the public domain. Let's hope
> this imbalance is "corrected", before we rush into a convention that
> would be inconsistent with both the Universal Declaration of Human
> Rights and the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity.
>
> Did I mention that the US is back (after 19 years of absence) into
> UNESCO? just in time for this convention.
> Frannie Wellings (Free Press) is trying to organize a meeting with the
> State Department in Washington, DC about this.  Let her
> (fwellings@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) know if you would be interested in attending
> such a meeting.
>
> Manon
>
> More at:
> http://www.cptech.org/unesco/
>   http://www.mediatrademonitor.org/
>         CRIS Statement:
> http://www.mediatrademonitor.org/node/view/180
> Libraries:
> http://www.mediatrademonitor.org/node/view/182
> INCD
> http://www.mediatrademonitor.org/node/view/185
> CRIS +
> http://www.mediatrademonitor.org/node/view/175
>
> http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=25926&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
> --
> Manon Anne Ress
> manon.ress@xxxxxxxxxx,
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