1998年9月25日,WTO 总理事会制订了一个电子商务工作计划。该计划包括邀请与贸易有关的知识产权委员会对与国际电子商务相关的知识产权问题进行审查并做出报告。但在那以后的几年中,TRIPS 委员会的成员们仍对这些问题有争议。而与此同时,以传播信息、出售文化产品和专利技术为主的全球电子商务正在成几何倍数增长,从 On September 25, 1998, the WTO General Council formulated a work plan for e-commerce. The plan includes inviting the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Board to review and report on intellectual property issues related to international e-commerce. However, in the years that followed, members of the TRIPS committee were still controversial about these issues. At the same time, global e-commerce, which focuses on the dissemination of information, the sale of cultural products and patented technologies, is experiencing a multiple of geometric multiples