Slashdot points the way to a rather sad Article on a World Intellectual Property Organization meeting to be devoted to open-source’s place in the intellectual-property landscape.
Lobbyists from Microsoft-funded trade groups were pushing officials at the State Department and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to squelch the meeting. One lobbyist, Emery Simon with the Business Software Alliance, said his group objected to the suggestion in the proposal that overly broad or restrictive intellectual-property rights might in some cases stunt technological innovation and economic growth.
Check out Comments From Lawrence Lessig for some more info.
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