{"id":5,"date":"2005-01-17T10:29:55","date_gmt":"2005-01-17T14:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/2005\/01\/17\/geists-visions\/"},"modified":"2006-12-10T09:59:51","modified_gmt":"2006-12-10T13:59:51","slug":"geists-visions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/2005\/01\/17\/geists-visions\/","title":{"rendered":"Geist&#8217;s visions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a34\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgeist.ca\/\">Michael Geist<\/a> notes in his weekly Toronto Star Law Bytes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&amp;c=Article&amp;cid=1105917010507&amp;call_pageid=968350072197&amp;col=969048863851&amp;DPL=JvsODSH7Aw0u%2bwoRO%2bYKDSblFxAk%2bwoVO%2bYODSbhFxAg%2bwkRO%2bUPDSXiFxMh%2bwkZO%2bUCDSTmFxIk%2bw8RO%2bMKDSPkFxUj%2bw8UO%2bMNDSPgFxUv%2bw8YO%2bILDSLkFxQh1w%3d%3d&amp;tacodalogin=yes\">column<\/a> (free registration required) that decades of international IP agreements &#8220;have failed to balance the interests of the developed and developing worlds and have led to annual outflows of billions of dollars from the developing world to the developed world.&#8221; As to copyright law in particular, Geist concludes that the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/2004\/10\/05\">WIPO&#8217;s development agenda<\/a> provides &#8220;the first chance in years to fashion a global intellectual property policy that helps, rather than hinders, the developing world.&#8221; Let&#8217;s make sure that Geist&#8217;s vision comes true.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, a new Berkman report on copyright law and digital media in Europe and the Asia\/Pacific region will be released <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/media\/\">here <\/a>within the next few days, togehter with an updated version of the foundational GartnerG2\/Berkman Center White Paper &#8220;Copyright and Digital Media in a Post-Napster World.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Geist notes in his weekly Toronto Star Law Bytes column (free registration required) that decades of international IP agreements &#8220;have failed to balance the interests of the developed and developing worlds and have led to annual outflows of billions of dollars from the developing world to the developed world.&#8221; As to copyright law in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257,1179,1204,1199,116,1205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-diversity","category-global-ip","category-ipr-enforcement","category-policy","category-wipo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}