Manon Ress

Sean Flynn speaking for user rights at the WIPO GA discussion of the SCCR work program. Highlighted lack of census over fixation and post fixation rights for mere broadcasting, and not giving broadcasters more rights than copyright holders (in terms of exceptions).

Some more support for WIPO doing work on the artists resale right. Something that KEI has endorsed as it relates to physical works of art.

For fifth time, China blocks Wikimedia Foundation as permanent observer to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) – Wikimedia Foundation On 9 July 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation was denied permanent observer status at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

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Promise of Victory Over H.I.V. Fades as U.S. Withdraws Support

"we’re moving backwards at warp speed"

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...

Potential Pell Grant changes could unfairly impact Native college students - ICT News Native leaders say a Congressional proposal to increase credit hour requirements and reduce the maximum amounts of Pell Grants could disproportionately affect Native students

80% of students enrolled in tribal colleges & universities use Pell Grants. The big, beautiful budget bill making its way thru Congress would lower the amount Pell recipients get & make it harder 2 qualify. The proposed cuts wld disproportionately affect Native students. ictnews.org/news/potenti...

I still think Canada should have abided by their own rules and refused to let a felon attend the G7

Trump is faking his way through the presidency the way he has faked his way through his entire life: responding to each moment with a bunch of half-coherent blather that is transformed by an army of sycophants into a plan. Blustery logorrhea from a rich dandy with the knowledge of a ninth-grader.

😭😭😭

Elon, please tell us everything you know about trump’s fake assassination attempts, GO !!!!!!

A truly historic evening at the #WHA78: the #PandemicAccord resolution was approved in Committee A with 124 in favour, 0 against and 11 abstentions.

The final step: adoption in plenary tomorrow morning.

My thanks once again to @who.int Member States for choosing to keep the world safer. 🙏

Right? It’s just absurd that the media won’t address this.

www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAC...

Check out IFLA Global on Bluesky! bsky.app/profile/ifla... #IFLA #librarieshttps://www.ifla.org/news/more-process-than-progress-at-sccr46-but-momentum-grows-for-change/

WHO Member States conclude negotiations and make significant progress on draft pandemic agreement After more than three years of intensive negotiations, WHO Member States took a major step forward in efforts to make the world safer from pandemics, by forging a draft agreement for consideration at ...

De Pandemic Agreement is ready for approval by the World Health Assembly in May. www.who.int/news/item/16...

Killing American universities will also increase the trade deficit, as Catherine Rampell points out www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... Unfortunately, as a reality TV show star, Donald Trump was never very good with numbers.

At the @who.int negotiations on the pandemic agreement, we are about to have a new data point on the question, does the state regulate the industry, or does the industry regulate the state.

Another missive from OppositeWorld:

Trump showed excellent cognitive and physical health following his first physical examination since returning to the White House, according to a report from the president's physician.

#NorthKoreaShit

The SCCR chair shuts off NGO statements after just four one minute interventions, including Innovarte, a Chile civil society NGO, followed by the MPA, the Japan Broadcasters and ARIPO. Everyone else has to main in comments.

📡Don’t cut the signal!

📺The proposed Broadcast Treaty at #SCCR46 fails to protect the public interest.

🔊We need mandatory exceptions for education, research, libraries, archives, quotation, accessibility and more.

Read our position ⬇️
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#GoPublic #dontcuthesignal #WIPO

Grace Nyongesa, from Kenya’s University Academic Staff Union, delivers a clear message:

🔊 “Broadcast materials are vital for quality education— in times of crisis and every day. Teachers and researchers need fair access."

#GoPublic 📡 Don’t cut the signal!

eiie.io/4ifLRtS

#SCCR46 #WIPO

Elon takes the L in Wisconsin.

Roundtable on negotiating text for a WIPO Broadcast Treaty, April 3, 2025 - Knowledge Ecology International KEI will host an informal roundtable on the WIPO broadcast treaty text that will be discussed at the WIPO SCCR 46 meeting from April 7 to April 11, 2025. The meeting documents are available from WIPO ...

I will be speaking tomorrow at the KEI open workshop and roundtable on the broadcast treaty tomorrow. Join us at www.keionline.org/sccr46 @pijip.bsky.social

I’m not doomscrolling I’m just diligently researching a very long very stupid dystopian apocalyptic satire called America

Think Europe should consider responding to tariffs by reducing IP protections for American drug makers. Would really play to European strengths, and who knows the US might end up importing EU drugs. Limits on patent charges for drugs treating conditions affecting >10m people for example.

These 10 House Democrats Voted With the Republicans to Censure Rep. Al Green for Interrupting Trump — Esquire It turns out that

Ten Democrats voted with the Republicans to censure Al Green, the heroic cane-waving champion of Medicaid and the American People.

Primary them all!

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"We cannot leave the security of Europe in the hands of voters in Wisconsin every 4 years."

- France Minister for the EU

You're right, but the Democrats all took a sacred "shit for brains" oath, so they can't miss the great pageantry, just because our democracy is on the line.