[free-sklyarov] Information About WIPO Wanted

[Erik Moeller]

Hi,

apparently the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a UN 
agency with a ~250 million $ budget, is responsible, among other 
despicable things, for the DMCA, the EU copyright directive, the 
Canadian equivalent to the DMCA and all other laws concerning the 
circumvention of copy-protection. See the "WIPO Copyright Treaty 
adopted by the Diplomatic Conference on December 20, 1996":

http://www.eff.org/Intellectual_property/WIPO/final_WIPO_treaty.html

Particularly Article 11:

Obligations concerning Technological Measures

"Contracting Parties shall provide adequate legal protection and 
effective legal remedies against the circumvention of effective 
technological measures that are used by authors in connection
with the exercise of their rights under this Treaty or the Berne 
Convention and that restrict acts, in respect of their works, which 
are not authorized by the authors concerned or permitted
by law."

Does anyone know more about how WIPO works? In particular:

1.) What happens if a member country doesn't satisfy the demands of a 
WIPO treaty? 

It seems to me that the policy-making process is a hidden one, and 
once the treaty has been signed, member nations have little choice 
but to turn it into law, particularly since WIPO cooperates with the 
WTO through the TRIPS agreement on intellectual property rights.

2.) How does the WIPO policy-making-process work?