[drn-discuss] [Fwd: [A2k] Preliminary Agenda for A2k London]

Wed Apr 27 11:22:49 PDT 2005

sounds wild Rufus - any idea where this is happening/ who's going to be
there? (I did a quick google and all I got - was this email again...)

At 17:48 27/04/05 +0100, Rufus Pollock wrote:
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>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: [A2k] Preliminary Agenda for A2k London
>Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:03:33 -0400
>From: Manon Ress <manon.ress at cptech.org>
>To: ip at tacd.org, a2k discuss list <a2k at lists.essential.org>
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>Proposed agenda for May 12-13 a2k meeting in London
>
>The following is a proposed agenda for the May 12-13, 2005, TACD
>workshop in London which will discuss a possible Treaty on Access to
>Knowledge.  The purpose of the meeting is to review specific proposals
>for text in a treaty.  The format of the meeting is fairly simple. In
>between an introduction to the topic and a final wrap up, there will be
>a discussion of proposals for treaty text.  For each topic, text will be
>presented, and then discussed.  Comments on the proposed agenda are welcome.
>
>Manon
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>May 12 -  Day 1 -   9:30AM to 5PM
>
>MORNING SESSION
>  Introduction
>  background, approaches, participants...
>  1)  Preamble, Objectives and Purposes (a few place holders)
>     a. Promotion of a knowledge commons
>     b. Relationship between a2k & human rights
>     c.  Promotion of creativity activity & the transfer of technology
>  2)  Placeholder for reference to Florence agreement regarding tariffs
>on importation of educational, scientific and cultural materials
>  3)  Education
>     a. Limitations and Exceptions
>  4)  Distance Education
>     a. Limitations and Exceptions
>  5)  Disabled and Visually Impaired Persons
>     a. Limitations and Exceptions
>  6)  Libraries
>     a. Limitations and Exceptions
>
>  LUNCH 1-2pm
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>  AFTERNOON SESSION
>  7)  Internet
>     a. Limitations and Exceptions to protect key Internet technologies
>        i. Linking
>        ii. Search Engines
>        iii. ISP liability
>  8)  Digital Rights Management (DRM) and Technological Protection
>Measures (TPM)
>  9)  Works in the Public Domain
>     a. Limitations on the term of copyright protection
>     b. Access to works by governments
>  10)  Scientific and Scholarly Research
>     a. Free Movement of Researchers
>     b. Limitations and exceptions relating to research on/with patented
>inventions
>     c. Open access to scientific and scholarly research
>     d. Reciprocal commitments to ensure that the benefits of publicly
>funded research are made available to all and not just to nationals
>     e. Limits on patentability of data from certain open public databases
>
>  May 13, 2005  - Day 2 -  9:30AM -5PM
>
>  MORNING SESSION
>  Presentation of proposals for new provisions?
>  11)  Collection Societies
>      a. Transparency
>      b. Ability to limit national treatment for disbursements in low
>income countries
>  12)  Standards and Knowledge Goods
>      a. Disclosure obligations and patents relating to standards
>development organizations (SDOs).
>         i. Protocol for Development of Open Standards (PDOS)
>      b. Government Procurement and support for open interfaces for
>certain computer hardware and software products
>      c. Compulsory licensing for Essential Knowledge Good interfaces
>  13)  Obligation to finance free and open knowledge goods
>      a. Amount of obligation to vary by GDP and level of development
>      b. Tradable Credits for priority projects
>  14) Compulsory licensing of copyrighted works in developing countries
>      a.  Update of Berne Appendix (Placeholder?)
>
>  Lunch 1-2pm
>
>  AFTERNOON SESSION
>  15)  Control of Anticompetitive Practices
>      a. Proposals for provisions on issues related to the control of
>anticompetitive practices in contractual licenses
>      b. Relationship between intellectual property rights and
>competition laws
>      c. Control of Anticompetitive Practices Advisory Committee
>      d. Excessive pricing of essential knowledge goods
>  16)  Transfer and Dissemination of Technology to developing countries
>  17)  Enforcement of rights and obligations
>  18)  Next Step
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>--
>Manon Anne Ress
>manon.ress at cptech.org,
>www.cptech.org
>
>Consumer Project on Technology in Washington, DC PO Box 19367,
>Washington, DC 20036, USA Tel.:  +1.202.387.8030, fax: +1.202.234.5176
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>Consumer Project on Technology in Geneva, 1 Route des  Morillons, CP
>2100, 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland. Tel: +41 22 791 6727
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>Consumer Project on Technology in London, 24 Highbury Crescent, London,
>N5 1RX, UK. Tel:+44(0)207 226 6663 ex 252. Mob:+44(0)790 386 4642. Fax:
>+44(0)207 354 0607
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