[pp.int.general] 23 April: UNESCO launches Anti-Piracy Observatory to celebrate World Book and Copyright Day :(

[Alex]

i just went thru their program for the development of communication.
they do promote all kinds of freedoms, including the freedom to access
any _available_ information. in other words, if you can afford the
information, you are free to access it!  thank you so much, UNESCO.

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Charly J <charlyj at gmail.com> wrote:
> As far as I know, UNESCO do work against censorship and part of their
> mission statement is to encourage "the free flow of information". I would
> look closer into this to see if they are just acting on behalf of big media
> or if they are genuinely going to make sure measures taken by governments
> are fair.
>
> On 23 Apr 2010, at 17:17, Patrick Maechler v/o Valio <pirate at valio.ch>
> wrote:
>
>> (Sorry for the previous mail with the embedded message that got scrubbed;
>> my current webmail client is rather useless -_-)
>>
>> Claude Almansi wrote:
>>
>> today, "23 April: UNESCO launches Anti-Piracy Observatory to celebrate
>> World Book and Copyright Day":
>> "UNESCO is celebrating World Book and Copyright Day on 23 April by
>> highlighting the need to preserve creativity from piracy. The Day also
>> marks the launch of celebrations in Ljubljana (Slovenia), World Book
>> Capital for 2010. (...)"
>> rest at
>> <http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/23_april_unesco_launches_anti_piracy_observatory_to_celebrate_world_book_and_copyright_day/back/18256/>.
>>
>> :(
>>
>> They also posted a video about it on YouTube
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC4lkyBc-1k Transcript (1):
>>
>> "0:07 Petya Totcharova - World Anti-Piracy Observatory - UNESCO:
>> Protecting copyright is very important for fostering creativity.  And
>> this is one of the reasons why UNESCO, together with protection of
>> books and reading, many years ago, approved the international
>> copyright - book and copyright day.
>> 0:27 Unesco has, over the years, developped a number of activities
>> that would contribute towards eradicating or reducing piracy.
>> 0:37 We have developped a lot of capacity-building initiative,
>> especially in developping countries where national culture and
>> national creativity suffer a lot from the effect of piracy.
>> 0:51 It is very important to find a balance between the protection of
>> rights of creators, and the access of the general public to protected
>> works.
>> 1:02 The latest, the most recent activity  of UNESCO is the launch of
>> the World Anti-Piracy Observatory.  We have considered it important to
>> develop this web-based, internet-based tool, providing detailed
>> information about different measures - legislative or non formal
>> measures - that are applied by different countries in the world.
>> 1:29 So the purpose is two-fold.  On one side, provide governments all
>> over the world with best practices, information and good ideas about
>> enforcement of rights and about respecting intellectual property laws,
>> On the other side, information provided for more than 110 countries
>> in the world also helps the right owners themselves 1:58"
>>
>> Odd that an organization dealing with culture and education should use
>> such a heavily connotated term as "piracy".
>>
>> And the latest item in the "newscorner" part (2) of this World
>> Anti-Piracy Observatory (3)  is "Digital Economy Bill approved by the
>> UK House of Lords" (4), dated April 4, 2010...
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Claude
>>
>> (1) I transcribed it because UNESCO does not caption its YouTube
>> videos, and the result of YT's autocaptioning is rather bizarre, e.g.
>> 0:07 - 0:27 is autocaptioned as: "what they think about the line the
>> very important food costs increases and this is one of the reasons
>> line school together with that prediction books and beating main ago
>> at who their international copyright broken competent the" ....
>> (2)
>> http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=39510&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
>> (3)
>> http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=39055&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
>> (4)
>> http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=40734&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
>>
>>
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