WIPO Boss: “The Web Would Have Been Better Off If It Was Patented & Every User Had To Pay A License Fee To Use It” | The Domains

WIPO Boss: “The Web Would Have Been Better Off If It Was Patented & Every User Had To Pay A License Fee To Use It” | The Domains: "The Blog,  boingboing, Francis Gurry, the Director General of the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) chatted last week about who much better off the Internet would have been “if it had been locked away in patents, and if every user of the Web had needed to pay a license fee to use it ”

Of course WIPO is one of the groups which administer domain name disputes and to see the head of it take such a pro-IP stance as to wish the entire Internet was protected by IP interests and that every user would be force to pay IP interests fees to use the net, it certainly gives you an indication of what domain holders are up against in a WIPO action"

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