[drn-discuss] [Fwd: [A2k] Revised A2k agenda for May 12-13, 2005]

Wed May 11 04:34:19 PDT 2005

Final info for the a2k meeting which takes place tomorrow and friday.

Regards,

Rufus

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Subject: [A2k] Revised A2k agenda  for May 12-13, 2005
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 17:06:15 -0400
From: Manon Ress <manon.ress at cptech.org>
To: a2k List <a2k at lists.essential.org>

Consolidated text at:
http://www.cptech.org/a2k/consolidatedtext-may9.pdf

Revised Agenda

A2K - A TREATY ON ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE

May 12-13, 2005

The meeting is co-hosted by the Queen Mary Intellectual Property
Research Institute and will take place at the Queen Mary University
campus at 327 Mile End Road, London E1 4NS

Mason Room, Biomedical Sciences Building
Queen Mary University campus, 327 Mile End Road, London E1 4NS

DAY 1 May 12

9:30  Introduction and welcome

PANEL 1          10 -10:45

Part 1 - Purposes, objectives, relationship to other treaties

Preamble
Article 1-1 - Objectives
Article 1-2 - Nature and Scope of Obligations
Article 1-3 - Relationship to other agreements
Part 2 - Governance
Article 2-1 - Conference of the Parties
Article 2-2 - Executive Board
Article 2-3 - Secretariat

Coffee break 10:45-11

PANEL 2         11:-12

Part 3 - Provisions Regarding Limitations and Exceptions to Copyright
and Related Rights
Article 3-1 - General Limitations and Exceptions to Copyrights
Article 3-2 - Provisions regarding Distance Education

PANEL  3         12-1

Article 3-4 - First Sale Doctrine for Library Use
Article 3-5 - Internet Service Providers

LUNCH         1-2pm

PANEL 4        2-3
Article 3-6 - Digital Rights Management and Measures Regarding
Circumvention of Technological Protection Measures
Article 3-7 -  Non-original or creative works
Article 3-8 - Orphan Works

PANEL 5        3-3:45
Article 3-9  - [Retroactive] Extensions of Term of Protection for
Copyright and Related Rights
Article 3-10 -  Requirements When Term of Protection for Works Protected
by Copyright and Related Rights Have Been Previously Extended to Exceed
TRIPS Requirements
Article 3-11 - Works For Which Author Has Alienated Economic Rights
Article 3-12 -  Compulsory licensing of copyrighted works in developing
countries

Coffee break 3:45-4

PANEL 6        4-5
Part 4 - Patents
Article 4-1 -  Patents

DAY 2 May 13

PANEL 7         9:30-10:30
PART 5 -  Expanding and enhancing the knowledge commons
Article 5-1 - Knowledge Commons Committee
Article 5-2 - Access to Public Funded Research
Article 5-3 - No Copyright of Government Works

Coffee break 10:30-10:45

PANEL 8          10:45- 12

Article 5-4 - Archives of Public Broadcasting
Article 5-5 - Access to Government Information
Article 5-6 - Knowledge Commons Databases
NOTE:  PART 3 Article 3-3 - The rights of persons with disabilities

PANEL 9         12-1
Part 6 - Promotion of Open Standards
Article 6-1 - Committee on Open Standards
Article 6-2 - Disclosure obligations for patents relating to standards
development organizations
Article 6-3 - Essential Interfaces for Knowledge Goods
Article 6-4 - Compulsory Licensing of Essential Interfaces for Knowledge
Goods
PART 7 - Control of Anticompetitive Practices
Article 7-1 - Relationship between intellectual property rights and
competition laws
Article 7-2 - Committee on Control of Anticompetitive Practices

LUNCH 1-2pm

PANEL 11         2-3
Article 7-3 - Essential Software
PART 8 - Authors and Performers
Article 8-1 - Copyright and Related Rights Collection Societies
Article 8-2 - Unfair Contracts

Coffee break 3-3:15

PANEL 12         3:15-4
PART 9 - Transfer Of Technology To Developing Countries
PART 10 - MISC ISSUES
Article 10-1 Free Movement of Researchers
Article 10-2 - Most Favored Access to Publicly Supported Research
Part 11 - Obligation to finance free and open knowledge goods general
discussion
PART 12 -  Enforcement of rights and obligations

PANEL 13  Next step    4-5

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Manon Anne Ress
manon.ress at cptech.org,
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