Re: [d@DCC] MS censors UN document

From: mgurst _-at-_ vcn.bc.ca
To: "General Copyright Discussions \(questions, organizing, etc\)" <discuss (at) list.digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 15:28:47 -0700 (PDT)
References: <465C0EF1.17843.FAA0147@tOM.abacurial.com> <57232.193.194.63.129.1180467900.squirrel@mail.vcn.bc.ca> <99a6c38f0705291259o791d541bma1484c809b032211@mail.gmail.com> <49220.193.194.63.129.1180470515.squirrel@mail.vcn.bc.ca> <99a6c38f0705291358x6afaae30x6021429cb33dd6b4@mail.gmail.com> <99a6c38f0705291457x40a89bdblbf28d0bab4e8b2e9@mail.gmail.com>

No idea, sorry...

MG

> On 5/29/07, Scott Elcomb <psema4@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 5/29/07, mgurst@vcn.bc.ca <mgurst@vcn.bc.ca> wrote:
>> > One final note, to call the proceedings a "UN document" is a gross
>> > distortion... The conference was not I believe an "official" UN
>> conference
>> > but may have been "endorsed" by one or another UN agency--it happens
>> > fairly often; and the proceedings were the proceedings of a mostly
>> > Austrian funded and sponsored conference that mattered very little in
>> the
>> > great scheme of things and wasn't so far as I know of much
>> significance
>> > even in the context of WSIS.
>>
>> Thanks for your thoughts MG.  Again, more recent references would be
>> wonderful, but going on what you've provided thus far...
>>
>> I understand that happens, (too often for my personal liking) but does
>> not the fact that a document "endorsed" by a UN agency (regardless of
>> the sponsorship of any individual or group of nations), regarding a
>> related conference, make said document - in it's final form - an
>> "official" UN document?
>>
>> Perhaps it was sponsored by Austria, but if it is a UN document why
>> then should MS have _any_ control over the contents of the document?
>
> Sorry for the double-post, but I was just thinking on this
> conversation again.  Are these "proceedings" under copyright, and if
> so, who owns it?
>
> --
> Scott Elcomb
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