MAI & IP

   Can anyone put me in touch with someone who can clarify the implications of the proposed IP terms in the Multilateral Agreement on Investment?

   From my reading of pp46 ff of the February negotiating text*, it seems that the proposed texts implement a rag-bag of exceptions which allow Good Things (collecting societies) and Bad Things (compulsory licensing) to continue to happen despite MAI; and that the overall drift is to exclude the possibility of the MAI outlawing Berne.

   But perhaps I am facing 180 degrees in the wrong direction?

• Available as PDF from http://www.oecd.org/daf/cmis/mai/maindex.htm (or thereabouts)

Mike Holderness
http://www.poptel.org.uk/nuj/mike/
<mch[_at_]cix.compulink.co.uk> Received on Wed Mar 25 1998 - 18:03:40 GMT