Bill Patry - Israel Fighting IIPA Over WIPO
Date : 2008 03 24 Category : Web News
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Bill Patry from Google has an interesting post regarding the tension between the country and the International Intellectual Property Association over not implementing the WIPO treaties. He notes that Israel is fighting the US based organization despite "bullying" tactics.
If there is anything to take away from the post, it's the fact that the copyright industry isn't necessarily targeting any single country in particular, but much rather, a large list of countries (if the special 301 report doesn't give that away already)
Patry notes that more than one scholar has wondered whether or not the Special 301 report is a violation of the TRIPS agreement. He goes further with the following:
One needs to actually pore through the IIPA country reports to fully grasp what I mean: the nitpicking attacks on (translated versions) of foreign statutes which are held up to the light of U.S.