Our rabid IP-hating friends over at KEI are up in arms because someone at WIPO dared to suggest that it might be a good idea to set aside a day where actual innovators and creators get a chance to interact with and speak with international delegates to WIPO and with WIPO staff.
Predictably, Mike Masnick over at TechDirt could be counted on to amplify and exaggerate this idea, calling it an "IP Maximalist Agenda Day," and asserting that for some reason public interest groups would be locked out of the event.
The IP skeptic community is so determined to divert WIPO from it's mandate to further intellectual property protection around the world, and to turn it into yet another useless UN "development" agency, that the slightest hint of WIPO doing something useful in the IP space sets them off. Then, their standard operating procedure is to exaggerate and amplify everything, mischaracterizing it and distorting it into something that the Internet community should fear.
There is nothing wrong with giving innovators and creators a day at WIPO to talk about what they do, and the fact that most of them happen to have jobs with companies doesn't turn it into something nefarious. Sometimes I have to wonder just who people like Masnick and Love think will actually do the innovating and creating in their ideal, IP-free world. Apparently none of them will work for companies.