''Efforts should be made, making full use of information technology, to ensure that all creators and users, in all parts of the world, are knowledgeable about their rights, through ongoing efforts to enhance public awareness of intellectual property rights and to demystify intellectual property issues.'' World Intellectual Property Declaration [7, Section 6, iv]
In the last twelve months, the growth of a global intellectual property regime has been sharply criticized in petitions and politics orgininating in Europe (patentability of software), Africa (global validity of AIDS patents) and the US (scholars are petitioning to open copyright for scholarly journals). In the entertainment sector, Napster and its followers (e.g. Gnutella) technically challenge the copyright doctrine. In the area of domain names, ICANN conceived the need for a global democratic legitimation. ''The extreme lightness of questions arising from pirating the Rolling Stones thanks to Napster cannot well compare to the unbearable pain of the AIDS victims. But it is often the property of revolutions to unite in a view radically different horizons.'' [5]