The Governments of Argentina and Brazil are taking the World Intellectual Property Organization to task - you can read their proposal in English, French and Spanish - all in Adobe's proprietary PDF format. Or, if you prefer plain text, you can read it in English here. An excerpt:

Humanity faces a global crisis in the governance of knowledge,
technology and culture.  The crisis is manifest in many ways.

* Without access to essential medicines, millions suffer and die;
* Morally repugnant inequality of access to education, knowledge and
technology undermines development and social cohesion;
* Anticompetitive practices in the knowledge economy impose enormous
costs on consumers and retard innovation;
* Authors, artists and inventors face mounting barriers to follow-on
innovation;
* Concentrated ownership and control of knowledge, technology,
biological resources and culture harm development, diversity and
democratic institutions;
* Technological measures designed to enforce intellectual property
rights in digital environments threaten core exceptions in copyright
laws for disabled persons, libraries, educators, authors and consumers,
and undermine privacy and freedom;
* Key mechanisms to compensate and support creative individuals and
communities are unfair to both creative persons and consumers;
* Private interests misappropriate social and public goods, and lock up
the public domain.

Of course, the Agreement between the United Nations and the World Intellectual Property Organization is of note - especially with more happening with the World Summit on Information Society.

Read it - and follow the instructions here to sign it. It's a sane thing to do, I think.