Rimarchevole discorso, soprattutto considerando che e' stato pronunciato dal Direttore Generale del WIPO. juan carlos Blue Sky Conference: Future Directions in Copyright Law Queensland University of Technology, Sydney, Australia February 25, 2011 The Future of Copyright (Sydney, February 25, 2011) Francis Gurry, Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization I am delighted to have the opportunity to participate in this Conference. I commend the Faculty of Law of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and the principal organizers of the Conference, Professor Brian Fitzgerald and Ben Atkinson, for taking up the gauntlet thrown down by the digital society. Few issues in intellectual property or, if I may suggest, cultural policy are as important as the consequences of the revolutionary structural change introduced by digital technology and the Internet. Recently, as the number of people in the world with access to the Internet passes two billion1 <http://www.wipo.int/about-wipo/en/dgo/speeches/dg_blueskyconf_11.html#1>, support for addressing the consequences of this fundamental change has come from the highest levels. Both President Sarkozy of France and President Medvedev of the Russian Federation have called for the G20 to consider the issue. In his speech at Davos earlier this year, President Medvedev stated that "the old principles of intellectual property regulation are not working anymore, particularly when it comes to the Internet". That, he stated, "is fraught with the collapse of the entire intellectual property rights system". Digital technology and the Internet have created the most powerful instrument for the democratization of knowledge since the invention of moveable type for printing. They have introduced perfect fidelity and near zero-marginal costs in the reproduction of cultural works and an unprecedented capacity to distribute those works around the globe at instantaneous speeds and, again, near zero-marginal costs. [...] Continua qui: http://www.wipo.int/about-wipo/en/dgo/speeches/dg_blueskyconf_11.html