They go into session today at 10am to discuss how to report the week’s events to the WIPO General Assembly, so officially, nothing is decided yet, but it appears as though WIPO will not be approving a diplomatic conference. Jukka Liedes, who has apparently chaired the WIPO copyright committee for all but two days over a twenty year period, may try to find a way to keep this alive, but many delegates are determined to move on to something else. One delegate said the decision to end the negotiation “was a tough but commendable decision.” It was very tough because of the intense lobbying by the aggressive and politically influential broadcasting industry, and it was commendable, because the delegates faced up to the unresolved differences that made a diplomatic conference an untimely and unwise venture, for everyone. The statements by the United States and India that led to the end of the negotiations were supported by a number of other delegations, who were also frustrated by the increasingly unrealistic efforts to find a consensus, or even a common understanding on the objectives of the treaty. All of the civil society NGOs were very pleased the negotiations came to an end, and many of the lobbyists for the copyright industries were also in agreement that a diplomatic conference was not a good idea, given the range of issues still on the table. But today we will hear from Jukka, the EU and others who want to keep this project going, and I’ll report more.