>Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:09:29 +0100
>From: sz <[email protected]>
>To: incom <[email protected]>
>
>[via wsis-plenary]
>
>A brief email to let you know about a meeting that's taking place in
>Geneva to discuss the WIPO Development Agenda and Treaty on Access to
>Knowledge, organized by the Third World Network (TWN), CPTech and the
>IFLA. Please refer to http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/a2k/
>for discussion and proposals being presented.
>
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>EXPERTS MEETING ON THE WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION (WIPO)
>DEVELOPMENT AGENDA AND TREATY ON ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE
>
> The meeting will be held from February 3-4, 2005 in Geneva, Switzerland
>at the Maison des Associations, 15 rue des Savoises in the Rachel Carson
>room. This meeting is organised by the Consumer Project on Technology
>(CPTech), Third World Network (TWN), and the International Federation of
>Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).
>
>At the WIPO General Assembly held from 27th September to 5th October
>2004 the governments of Argentina and Brazil submitted a proposal for
>"the Establishment of a Development Agenda for WIPO". The proposal was
>co-sponsored by Bolivia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Iran,
>Kenya, Peru, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania and Venezuela. The
>Development Agenda proposal asked for fundamental changes in WIPO. Some
>of the proposals were specifically directed at the special concerns of
>developing countries, while others were efforts to redirect WIPO to give
>more weight to general consumer and public interests in matters
>concerning patents, copyrights and other intellectual property rights.
>Among the proposals for a Development Agenda is a proposal for a "Treaty
>on Access to Knowledge and Technology".
>
>On October 4, 2004, the WIPO General Assembly issued a decision that
>creates a rapid evaluation of the Development Agenda. There is now an
>opportunity to follow up on this. Of particular importance are two
>Geneva meetings; the April 11-13 2005 inter-sessional intergovernmental
>meeting that is open to all WIPO Member States and WIPO-accredited IGO
>and NGO observers, and the April 14-15 2005 meeting of the Permanent
>Committee on Cooperation for Development Related to Intellectual
>Property (PCIPD). There will also be a May 2 and 3, 2005 joint
>international seminar on Intellectual Property and Development,
>organized with UNCTAD, WHO, UNIDO and WTO, that is open to all
>stakeholders including NGOs, civil society and academia. The WIPO
>Secretariat will also prepare a report by July 30, 2005, for
>consideration at the next WIPO General Assembly in September 2005. The
>Development Agenda is also being discussed in the context of WIPO's
>regular meetings on patents and copyrights (Standing Committee on
>Patents (SCP), Working Group on Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Reform,
>Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) etc). The SCCR
>has also agreed to include the issue of limitations and exceptions to
>copyright and related rights in its June agenda.
>
>The Development Agenda proposal, the WIPO General Assembly decision and
>many of the comments and discussions are on the web at
><http://www.cptech.org/ip/wipo/futureofwipo.html>
>
>In order to prepare for these meetings, and to discuss the proposed
>treaty on Access to Knowledge TWN, CPTech and IFLA are hosting this
>Experts Meeting. The invited participants will include Geneva based
>delegates involved in TRIPS and WIPO negotiations from developing
>countries; key academics, civil society NGOs from developed and
>developing countries; representing diverse interests and areas of
>expertise.
>
>The two day meeting will begin with a short review of the status of the
>WIPO Development Agenda and proceed with a detailed discussion on the
>proposed treaty on Access to Knowledge. On the first day the discussion
>will begin with the Development Agenda proposal for an instrument on
>sharing access to government funded research. This will be followed by
>discussions on proposals for minimum global limitations and exceptions
>in the area of copyright. The second day will focus on emerging issues
>for access to knowledge including the control of anti-competitive
>practices, the open access publishing movement, promotion of open
>source/free software, and proposals to address problems of patents on
>(Internet and other) standards, and on public goods like the HapMap or
>Human Genome databases. The meeting will close with discussion on
>strategy and the appropriate fora for the promotion of an Access to
>Knowledge (a2k) campaign.
>We will also create a public archived discussion list for the meeting
>called a2k-discuss at
><http://lists.essential.org/mailman/listinfo/a2k-discuss>
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