- Without access to essential medicines, millions suffer and die;
- Morally repugnant inequality of access to education, knowledge and technology undermines development and social cohesion;
- Anticompetitive practices in the knowledge economy impose enormous costs on consumers and retard innovation;
- Authors, artists and inventors face mounting barriers to follow-on innovation;
- Concentrated ownership and control of knowledge, technology, biological resources and culture harm development, diversity and democratic institutions;
- Technological measures designed to enforce intellectual property rights in digital environments threaten core exceptions in copyright laws for disabled persons, libraries, educators, authors and consumers, and undermine privacy and freedom;
- Key mechanisms to compensate and support creative individuals and communities are unfair to both creative persons and consumers;
- Private interests misappropriate social and public goods, and lock up the public domain.
The Geneva Declaration on the Future of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
22 September 2004
Humanity faces a global crisis in the governance of knowledge, technology and culture. The crisis is manifest in many ways.
Geneva Declaration
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Conference on WIPO Reform in Geneva sponsored by Consumers International and the Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue18 May, 2007: Buy Zetia Without Prescription
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