[DMCA_Discuss] WIPOUT ANNOUNCES CONTEST WINNERS

Fri Apr 26 13:03:05 CDT 2002

Hi:  I hope this gets widespread publicity.  I mean, widespread!  Required 
reading for CARP, RIAA, Congress, Disney.  Every one of them should be 
required to respond to each essay.  Then, we hang 'em by their toes.
Thanks,
Tom
http://www.studioforrecording.org/
http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/
http://renotahoe.pm.org/

On Friday 26 April 2002 09:15, Jon O. wrote:
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> From: "Alan Story" <a.c.story at ukc.ac.uk>
> Subject: WIPOUT ANNOUNCES CONTEST WINNERS
> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 09:34:43 +0100
>
> Press release from WIPOUT                      contact at wipout.net
>
> 26 April 2002                                              www.wipout.net
>
> WIPOUT ANNOUNCES ITS CONTEST WINNERS
>
> WIPOUT, the international intellectual property counter-essay contest,
> today announces its eleven winners on the day that has been tagged “World
> Intellectual Property Day” by the World Intellectual Property Organisation
> (WIPO).
>
> The winners, selected by an international panel of judges, live in six
> countries across the globe and submitted essays in four different
> languages: English, French, German, and Spanish. They are named below and
> are also available on the WIPOUT web site at:  www.wipout.net
>
> “The obvious interest in the counter-essay contest and the high quality of
> the entries show that a growing number of people are dissenting from WIPO’s
> dangerous stance that more and more extensive protection of more and more
> forms of intellectual property is a good thing,” the WIPOUT co-chairs
> stated today.
>
> A total of 77 essays were submitted from 18 countries in response to the
> question: WHAT DOES INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MEAN TO YOU IN YOUR DAILY LIFE?
>
> Earlier in 2001, WIPO, a United Nations organisation, had set up an essay
> contest that asked the same question. But WIPOUT organisers decided that a
> WIPO-sponsored contest would fail to appreciate the damage that the
> over-protection of intellectual property is doing to education, health
> care, the environment, and economic security for millions around the globe.
>
> As Noam Chomsky, one of the more than 50 individuals and groups who
> endorsed WIPOUT said, this counter contest reminds people that “this harsh
> regime [of intellectual property rights] is designed to grant multinational
> corporations control over the technology of the future
it really is a
> scandal.”  (The complete list of contest endorsers can be found at:
> http://www.wipout.net/endorsers.html ).
>
> All of the 77 essays submitted, including the winning essays, are available
> on the WIPOUT site, www.wipout.net .The essays to WIPOUT came from the USA,
> UK, Republic of South Africa, Canada, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Japan,
> Australia, Greece, Russian Federation, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Netherlands,
> New Zealand, France, People's Republic of China and Bulgaria.
>
> Among other issues, the 77 essays reveal:
>
> - how illiterate persons in South Africa are required to pay copyright
> royalty fees if they wish to learn to read
and hence don’t get the
> opportunity.
> -  how the conductor of a volunteer church choir in the United States could
> not lead his choir in a proper public performance, again because of
> copyright restrictions;
> -  how drug patents are blocking access to desperately needed anti HIV/AIDS
> drugs
and again, how copyright royalties are charged for anti-HIV health
> materials;
> - how the TRIPS agreement is turning into a cruel hoax for countries of the
> South;
> - how IP laws are transforming the Internet into a restrictive, user-pay
> experience.
> - how the patenting of plants and genes is doing great damages to the
> interests of farmers and consumers.
>
> Among the contributions are poems, drawings, short stories, fictional IP
> “nightmare scenarios” of coming years, calls to action, parodies,
> historical explorations, and theoretical critiques of intellectual
> property.
>
> Each of the winners will receive a small financial prize from the WIPOUT
> prize fund that was created primarily through a generous donation from the
> Center for the Public Domain in the United States.
>
> “ Our small group of volunteers hardly has the financial or publicity
> resources of WIPO, which is housed in palatial head offices beside Lake
> Geneva in Switzerland, and so we think it was a good accomplishment to get
> 50% of number of essays that WIPO’s contest received.”  WIPO is also
> announcing its essay contest winners today.
>
> WIPOUT is an international organisation consisting of academics, artists,
> musicians and other activists. Future projects and programmes are now under
> discussion.
>
> The WIPOUT contest started on 4 September 2001 and concluded on 15 March
> 2002.
>
> Today WIPOUT celebrates the winners, but the competitive aspect of the
> contest was always secondary to the purpose of giving a platform to the
> voices who disagree with the constant expansion of intellectual property
> protection.
>
>
>
> NAMES OF WIPOUT CONTEST WINNERS, TITLES OF THEIR ESSAYS, AND THEIR LOCATION
> (THE NAMES ARE LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER.)
>
>
> NAMES OF WIPOUT CONTEST WINNERS, TITLES OF THEIR ESSAYS, AND THEIR LOCATION
> (THE NAMES ARE LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER.)
>
> ENGLISH-LANGUAGE WINNERS
>
> John Cahir, ON CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AND POLITICAL ACTION, London, United
> Kingdom.  http://www.wipout.net/essays/0113cahir.htm
>
> Jason Holt, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AFFECTS MY LIFE, Provo, Utah, United
> States of America. http://www.wipout.net/essays/0216holt.htm
>
> Eddan Elizafon Katz, MY FIRST SEVEN DAYS ON THE INTERNET, Oakland,
> California, United States of America.
> http://www.wipout.net/essays/0315katz.htm
>
> Vijaya Kumar, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS – AN OBSTACLE TO DEVELOPMENT?,
> Dangolia, Kandy, Sri Lanka.
> http://www.wipout.net/essays/0314kumar.htm
>
> Denise Nicholson, DOES COPYRIGHT HAVE ANY SIGNIFANCE IN THE LIVES OF
> ILLITERATE OR VISUALLY-IMPAIRED PERSONS?, Johannesburg,  South
> Africa.http://www.wipout.net/essays/1128nicholson.htm
>
> Percy Schmeiser, GENETIC CONTAMINATION AND FARMERS’ RIGHTS, Bruno,
> Saskatchewan, Canada.  http://www.wipout.net/essays/0904schmeiser.htm
>
> Louise Szente, THE CROW AND THE OWL, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
> http://www.wipout.net/essays/1112szente.htm
>
> Philip Tagg, COPYRIGHT VS. THE DEMOCRATIC RIGHT TO KNOW, Liverpool, United
> Kingdom. http://www.wipout.net/essays/1112tagg.htm
>
>
> FRENCH-LANGUAGE WINNER
>
> Alexandre Pirsch, ANTHROPOLOGIE ET DROITS D'AUTEUR: (D)ÉCRIRE L'AUTRE ET LE
> (DÉ)POSSÉDER (ANTHROPOLOGY AND COPYRIGHT:
> HOW "WRITING" CAN DEPRIVE THE OTHER OF HIS/HER RIGHTS.) Montreal, Quebec,
> Canada.  http://www.wipout.net/essays/0315pirsch.htm
>
>
> GERMAN-LANGUAGE WINNER
>
> Alesch Staehelin, SUCHE NACH BILLIGEN AIDS-MEDIKAMENTEN (THE SEARCH FOR
> CHEAP AIDS DRUGS ) Venice, California, United States.
> http://www.wipout.net/essays/0310staehelin.htm
>
> SPANISH-LANGUAGE WINNER
> Juan Mateos Garcia, DERECHOS DE PROPIEDAD INTELECTUAL Y ESPACIOS DE
> INFORMACIÓN PÚBLICA (INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND THE INFORMATION
> COMMONS ), Salamanca, Spain. http://www.wipout.net/essays/1012garcia.htm
>
>
> NOTE TO NEWS EDITORS:
>
> 1. More details of the contest are available on the Wipout website at:
> www.wipout.net
>
> 2. If you would like to arrange an interview or have further questions
> about WIPOUT, here are the persons to contact:
>
> IN THE UNITED KINGDOM -
>
> Alan Story					Dr Lee Marshall
> Kent Law School				Department of Sociology
> University of Kent 				University College Worcester
> Canterbury					Henwick Grove
> Kent CT2 7NS				Worcester WR2 6AJ
> 44 (0)1227 823316				44 (0)1905 855312
> a.c.story at ukc.ac.uk 				l.marshall at worc.ac.uk
>
> IN THE UNITED STATES :
>
> Debora Halbert
> Associate Professor of Political Science
> Otterbein College
> Dept. of History and Political Science
> Westerville OH 43081
> (614) 823-1559
> DHalbert at otterbein.edu
>
> IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
>
> Brian Martin
> Science, Technology & Society
> University of Wollongong, NSW 2522
> Australia
> phone +61-2-4221 3763 work,
> fax      +61-2-4221 3452
> brian_martin at uow.edu.au
>
> 3. Details of the WIPO contest can be found at:
> http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/alert/2001/ma03rev.htm
>
>
> Press release issued by WIPOUT, The Intellectual Property Counter Essay
> Contest                                                  contact at wipout.net
>
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> Alan Story
> WIPOUT
> contact at wipout.net
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