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Tom Giovanetti of the Institute for Policy Innovation is blogging from the WIPO meeting in Geneva.
Its a strenuous life:
So, here's how things got started.
At 9 am, nothing had started. . . .
By my watch, the proceedings got started at 12:42 pm. . . .
But it's even better than that. While proceedings started at 12:42 pm, they were ADJOURNED at 12:54 for lunch.
The session resumed at 3:08 pm, and now at 4:37, we are taking a 10 minute coffee break.
The "10 minute coffee break" ended at 5:00 pm.
We are just about 20% finished with the 5 days allotted to these discussions.
Diplomacy is about NOT getting things done. Of course, if the matter at hand is a bad thing, not getting things doesn't may not be such a bad thing . . . The last point seems a good one. When proceedings did get going, they focused on the idea of technological protection measures as a threat to the public domain rather than on their value as a protector of IP.
posted by James DeLong @ 2:03 PM | International
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