Laugh all you want flamer, the UN is fully committed to open source just like you. They reference Stallman constantly just like you too. Only one portion of the DMCA was related to the UN and it's now obviously contrary to their current goals.
WIPO Announces Plans to Support Open Source
http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20041004215722422
"Today WIPO supports an entirely different approach, which emphasizes open source software"
"Only one portion of the DMCA was related to the UN and it's now obviously contrary to their current goals. "
Spin, spin, spin. It's UN law, implemented with your blessing. Of course, you love all things "one world" just like Microsoft money for China and Planned Parenthood.
"it's now obviously contrary to their current goals. "
Ha! They haven't repealed the WIPO Copyright and Performances and Phonograms Treaties Implementation Act, have they? That's the model for the DMCA, you know, right? Did we just lie again?
And as for condeming the WIPO, I was expressing my disgust with them as you argued against me, earlier, lying about DMCA not being UN law, etc.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1620494/posts?page=163#163
So, lie again if you want, but the facts once again don't line up with your version of reality.
The constitutional source of the copyright laws of the United States is very different in spirit than the copyright laws of much of the rest of the world. WIPO so far has had a very non-US approach, which tried to give absolute power to the copyright holders, and we adopted WIPO policies as our laws in direct opposition to the spirit of the Constitution. Not only the WIPO-based DMCA, but the CTEA and others influenced by the international community have made our copyright laws stray very far from their constitutional basis.
It is good that WIPO is moving towards a US-based model that balances copyright holders' limited monopoly powers with the public good.