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RUNNING HEAD : Intellectual Property Rights

Intellectual Property Rights

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As a specialized branch of the United Nations judiciary , the views of the World Intellectual Property Organization are , at a cursory glance difficult to determine due to the different perspectives maintained by UN member nations regarding intellectual property itself . One consistent means this is done is by repressing the development of legislature that conform to WIPO-administered treaties (Newman , 2003 ) Another is by simply cutting off the WIPO 's ability to hold a dialogue on those issues

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In the case of one debacle in which a WIPO meeting regarding open and collaborative projects was cancelled by the United States , the director for international relations at the U .S . Patent and Trademark Office explained that open-source software runs counter to the mission of WIPO , which is to promote intellectual-property rights [ .] To hold a meeting which has as its purpose to disclaim or waive such rights seems to us to be contrary to the goals of WIPO (Lessig , 2004 ) In effect the American view of IP stymied the independent authority of the WIPO itself

As such , the popular interpretation of intellectual property is that of a broadly maximized definition of the term , best represented by the well-worn phrase , All Rights Reserved ' But in reality , the WIPO 's views are a bit more complicated than that , as reflected by the numerous treaties they administer . While some developed countries view intellectual property as an entirely economic...