Get the message? Don't worry, more details on IPR will follow in the months ahead of the second phase of the summit, to be held in Tunis, Tunisia, in 2005.
"What can water down such political documents is the fact that under the U.N. (United Nations) system, every country has a veto right," Greve said. "It's a totally consensus-driven process. If one country says no to some wording, then that wording is dropped."
So was the tremendous work involved in the draft declaration of principles and action plan worth the effort? "When it comes to software and IPR, I have to admit that we haven't made a quantum leap," Greve said. "But we have taken steps nevertheless in creating an awareness at a very high political level of the need to make software and content more easily available to poorer nations, and that's better than we expected."
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