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

Sun Apr 25 09:50:51 CEST 2010

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Anyone who has more information regarding Ms. Petya Totcharova
background ? Seems she's based in Paris and I found a few hints which
might suggest she's a liberal but what's her C.V. ? Whe does she comes
from? What did she do an who did she work for before working at UNESCO?

I found an other rather interesting document which can be found on
http://www.accu.or.jp/appreb/10copyr/pdf_ws0503/2_2_totcharova.pdf

This document says Ms. Totcharova works as a Legal Advisor for the
Cultural Enterprise and Copyright Section, Division of Arts and
Cultural Enterprise.
In the document we find the traditional partners for this type of
projects : IFPI, MPA, IPR Group of WCO, CISAC, BSA, etc.

For a free market to exist it needs a market society. This is a
problem when it comes to developping countries so they have to be
"educated" into accepting that all of their creativity has to be sold
or not exist at all.
The document says UNESCO created The Global Alliance for Cultural
Diversity in 2002 together with "stategical partners". We now see what
their idea of protecting cultural diversity is. Copyright, media
corporations and monopolies. Corporations in a globalazed world will
only support and distribute creations which have the biggest potential
to generate massive sales. Those are also the only creations they will
market.

With this UNESCO becomes a mere tool serving those corporations and
is, in reality, pushing forward the worldwide destruction of cultural
diversity. Endeavour the Coca Cola civilisation.

On 23/04/2010 20:17, Alex wrote:
> 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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