nettime TRIPS was a mistake
[It's amazing to see that the treaty which many identify as the corner stone of information feudalism (Peter Drahos) is judged as a failure by one of it's main designers. From Ian Brown's blog, via the always excellent EDRI newsletter [2]. Felix] Lehman: TRIPS was a mistake http://dooom.blogspot.com/2006/03/lehman-trips-was-mistake.html I'm attending a great meeting in Brussels on The Politics and Ideology of Intellectual Property [1]. We just had quite a newsflash from Bruce Lehman, President Clinton's head of intellectual property policy who was largely responsible for the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). Lehman now believes TRIPS has been a failure for the United States, because the WTO agreement in which it is included opened US markets to overseas manufactured goods and destroyed the US manufacturing industry. He feels that the US has kept its part of the TRIPS bargain, but that with 90% piracy in China, higher-end developing nations have not. In retrospect, he feels the US should instead have introduced labour and environmental standards into the WTO agreement so that jobs would not be lost in the US manufacturing sector to countries with few environmental standards and weak unions. How exhilirating that Mr Lehman agrees with civil society IP experts across the developed and developing world! [1] http://www.tacd.org/docs/?id=286 [2] http://www.edri.org/ http://felix.openflows.org-- out now: *|Manuel Castells and the Theory of the Network Society. Polity, 2006 *|Open Cultures and the Nature of Networks. Ed. Futura/Revolver, 2005 # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
nettime Response to article on citizen journalism by Samuel Freedman
Citizen Journalists and the New 'News' A response to Samuel Freedman's column on CBS TV's 'Public Eye' http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=8no=283357rel_no=1 Each week we invite someone from outside... to weigh in with their thoughts about CBS News and the media at large, explains the introduction on the CBS TV Web site feature Public Eye. The March 29 article featured on Public Eye was on the subject of citizen journalism. It was written by Samuel Freedman, a professor at the Columbia University School of Journalism and a New York Times columnist. (1) In his article, Freedman presents not only a superficial view of citizen journalism, but also a rosy colored view of the mainstream professional press in the U.S. The thrust of Freedman's argument is that citizen journalism is part of a larger attempt to degrade, even to disenfranchise journalism as practiced by trained professionals. Citizen journalism, according to Freedman, is in essence the presentation of raw material generated by amateurs, unlike the journalism of the trained, skilled journalist (who) should know how to weigh, analyze, describe and explain. Considering that Freedman is a professional journalist and also a professor who is responsible for the training of professional journalists, one might expect that he would do some investigation about the origins and thrust of the phenomena of citizen journalism before writing an article which not only mischaracterizes the phenomena, but also the practice of most of the professional journalists in the U.S. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and info nettime-l in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net
