WIPO Discussions: Day 6 (Part I of X)

For those of you out of the loop, the World Intellectual Property Organization has online discussion forums until the 15th of June:

The WIPO Online Forum is designed to enable and encourage an open debate on issues related to intellectual property in the information society, and in light of the goals of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). This presents a unique opportunity for all to engage in the emerging debate on intellectual property in our day...

I'm presently responding to each of the ten themes WIPO has, and I'm also posting them here on this weblog such that I can refer to them independantly if I have to.

Theme One, which I will post my response to in this entry (below), has the following abstract:

...The WSIS Declaration of Principles sets out a vision for the information society