{"id":1261,"date":"2003-08-24T00:30:01","date_gmt":"2003-08-24T04:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/24\/us-official-free-software-is-unamerica"},"modified":"2003-08-24T00:30:01","modified_gmt":"2003-08-24T04:30:01","slug":"us-official-free-software-is-unamerican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/24\/us-official-free-software-is-unamerican\/","title":{"rendered":"US Official: Free Software is Unamerican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a745'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>&quot;I don&#8217;t even know how to begin this story, so stupid and extreme<br \/>\n        it is.&quot;&nbsp; So begins Lawrence Lessig in a relevatory article<br \/>\n        on the US reaction to a World Intellectual Property Organization<br \/>\n        (WIPO) meeting on &#8220;Open collaborative models to develop public goods&#8221;<br \/>\n        including open-source and free software. WIPO is affiliated with the<br \/>\n        UN.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Lois Boland, director of international relations for the U.S.<br \/>\n        Patent and Trademark Office, who, at the prompting of Microsoft and software<br \/>\n        industry lobbying (according to this story by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A23422-2003Aug20.html\">Jonathan<br \/>\n        Krim<\/a> in the Washington Post) proclaimed<br \/>\n        &#8220;that open-source software runs counter to the mission of WIPO, which<br \/>\n        is to<br \/>\n        promote intellectual-property<br \/>\n        rights.&#8221;&nbsp; She was further quoted as saying, &#8220;To hold a meeting<br \/>\n        which has as its purpose to disclaim or waive such rights seems to us<br \/>\n        to be<br \/>\n        contrary<br \/>\n        to<br \/>\n        the goals<br \/>\n      of WIPO.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lessig lights into Lois here: &quot;If Lois Boland said this, then she should<br \/>\n        be asked to resign. &quot; Of course, this unleashed a torrent of comments.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"http:\/\/lessig.org\/blog\/archives\/001436.shtml\">follow<br \/>\n      the fun at Lessig Blog<\/a> (see blog for latest developments)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;I don&#8217;t even know how to begin this story, so stupid and extreme it is.&quot;&nbsp; So begins Lawrence Lessig in a relevatory article on the US reaction to a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) meeting on &#8220;Open collaborative models to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/24\/us-official-free-software-is-unamerican\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}