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["Ian Thomson" <ithomson.nz AT gmail.com>]

An interesting project.

Ian Thomson

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From: Mark Perkins lists <lists AT markperkins.info
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Date: 26-Apr-2007 06:35
Subject: [PICISOC] The Copy/South Reader Response Project vs. WIPO's IP Day
To: Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society Discussion List <
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Copy/South Reader Response Project Launches on World IP Day
http://www.copysouth.org/

For release: Thursday, 26 April 2007

To mark World Intellectual Property Day (26 April), the Copy/South Research
Group

calls on you to take up its slogan --- "Encouraging Creativity" ---- and
send in your creative thoughts and opinions on the role of copyright law and
ideology in the countries of the global South.

Our new project, the Copy/South Reader Response ( available at
http://www.copysouth.org/) launches today as part of a global
counter-celebration of this day and its deceitful slogan.

We want to hear from you and find out whether you agree with the viewpoint
of the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organisation that creativity
is impossible without copyright laws --- and the more restrictive and
punishing, the better.

For our new project, readers of the Copy/South Dossier,  which was published
in May 2006 and contains more than 50 articles giving facts and views on the
largely obstructive role of copyright law and ideology in countries of the
global South, are asked to do TWO THINGS: :

1) send in your comments on and criticisms of the 206-page Dossier.

2) send in examples of your own personal experiences with copyright in the
global South, whether you are a librarian, an educator, a writer or
musician, visually impaired, or a user of copyright-restricted materials.

The comments that we receive will be posted on our open access reader
response website. Feel free to give your views in any one of eight
languages. Keep your messages lively and to the point.

As stated on its 26 April website, WIPO's day "celebrates" the supposed
"link between intellectual property and creativity."

But it makes no mention of how copyright law acts as the "command and
control" apparatus for global software, publishing, and broadcasting
corporations such as Microsoft and Harper Collins or the more regional
empire of Venezuelan broadcasting billionaire Gustavo Cisneros.

Nor does it talk about how WIPO endorses such ruthless acts as forcing
overworked local police agencies across the South to raid local schools to
enforce corporate copyright interests.

These are among the issues taken by the Dossier, which took 18 months to
research and write, and has been distributed world-wide over the past eleven
months.

It  has won praise for its accessible explanations of some complicated
issues and its plain speaking. Of course, the Dossier also has its critics
as you will see if you read some of the initial responses posted on the
website.

To read more about the R/R project, go to:
http://www.copysouth.org/

To read the Dossier online  ( and find out how to receive a copy by
post/mail), go to:
http://www.copysouth.org/

To contact Copy/South, send an e-mail to:
contact AT copysouth.org

The Copy/South Research Group

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Mark Perkins MLIS, MCLIP
www.markperkins.info

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