Pensando a proteção da propriedade intelectual em equilíbrio com o acesso ao conhecimento.
A great achievement has been accomplished by the Open Business project in Brazil. The project, supported by IDRC (International Development Research Center), negotiated an important change on the part of the Brazilian Classification of Economic Activities (referred to by the acronym CNAE in Brazil).
Source: BBC NEWS-
By Gary Duffy
BBC Brazil correspondent
In the early hours of the morning in the Amazonian city of Belem, Brazil a dockside warehouse is shaking to the sound of tecnobrega.
In this humid atmosphere, the beer is flowing and thousands of young people are dancing and enjoying what has become a music phenomenon among some of the poorest districts of the city.
Tecnobrega is a mix of electronic beats of music from the 1980s and catchy “brega” which essentially means cheesy or tacky sounds – a combination that is very easy to dance to.
Sometimes it is based on old songs that were hits, but up to 80% involves new compositions.
It might not appeal to everyone – but here in Belem, near the mouth of the Amazon river – the formula has proved a stunning success.
“Tecnobrega is a regional music, the music that people here in (the state of) Para most enjoy,” says DJ Edilson.
“The secrets are the beats which drive people crazy.”
But it is not just the music that is different.
By Dugie Standeford for Intellectual Property Watch
Copyright has taken centre stage again this year as the battle over internet service provider (ISP) responsibility for digital piracy intensifies and spreads around the world.
2009 will also feature growing global pressure for a more harmonised system of copyright limitations and exceptions, and continuing controversy over the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
Intermediary Liability
This year is crucial for the music industry, which needs to see “ISP cooperation become a reality,” said a spokesman for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.
By William New, Feb 3, 2009
The ambassadors to the World Trade Organization from Brazil and India on Tuesday charged that other WTO members had no grounds to block legitimate shipping of generic medicines on the basis of potential intellectual property rights conflicts in the transit country and said recent cases of doing so in the Netherlands call into question WTO rules.
