Pensando a proteção da propriedade intelectual em equilíbrio com o acesso ao conhecimento.
Today the U.S.Trade Representative (USTR) has released its annual Special 301 report in which it purports to identify those countries with inadequate intellectual property laws. As highlighted by James Love in KEI statement, the list is highly political, as usual.
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Day 3 of the meetings from the Committee on Development and Intellectual Property Rights (CDIP) has just finished and a few substantive steps have been taken to move forward with the implementation of the Development Agenda.
Since day 2 evening and through out the morning of day 3 open session has been canceled for informal discussions in order to try to reach consensus on agenda item number 7: mechanisms of coordination and monitoring of implementation of the development agenda.
Observers from civil society still weren’t informed about the achievements of these informal meetings.
The fifth meeting of the Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP), hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization has just started in Geneva, Switzerland.
Does strong IP protection necessarily lead to innovation and foreign investment to developing countries? Or does it actually threaten access to knowledge in less developed countries, which are not significant IP owners but find themselves obliged to transfer huge amounts of money in royalties to developed nations?
These questions have been the focus of great attention in the international arena.
By James Love, Director, KEI
Today the first public draft of the ACTA text was released.
Brazil is going through a remarkable procedure for the establishment of a civil-rights based legal framework for the use of Internet. The Ministry of Justice, in partnership with the Center for Technology and Society from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV/CTS), has launched a collaborative process to try to underline how Brazilian society is willing to structure rights and responsibilities for using the web, as well as providing access and content.
This collaborative debate is structured in two phases:
a) First phase (finnished on December, 17th): based on selected topics, society had an open space to expose their opinion on principles that should become guidelines for Internet.
