WIPO releases program for ‘Global Meeting on Emerging Copyright Licensing Modalities’

In advance of the 21st session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR 21), WIPO is holding a Global Meeting on Emerging Copyright Licensing Modalities on 4-5 November 2010 in Geneva which endeavors to facilitate ‘Access to Culture in the Digital Age’. The program for this Global Meeting can be found here: http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/2010/wipo_cr_lic_ge_10/program.html.

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SCP15: KEI statement on Exclusions from Patentable Subject Matter and Exceptions and Limitations to the Rights

KEI statement on Exclusions from Patentable Subject Matter and Exceptions and Limitations to the Rights
SCP 15
13 October 2010

Thank you Mr. Chair.

We take note of Professor Coenraad Visser’s study which examined ‘Selected Case Studies of Countries Where Compulsory Licences Have Been Granted for Pharmaceuticals’.

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KEI general statement to the 15th Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP)

SCP 15
General Statement of Knowledge Ecology International
12 October 2010

Thank you Mr. Chair, and I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you and the vice-chairs upon your re-election.

1. Knowledge Ecology International welcomes the reports by experts, thanks the Secretariat for its work on this topic.

As a general matter, KEI suggests the WIPO Secretariat provide standardized disclosure of the professional consulting that various experts do, as is the practice for other UN bodies and some academic journals.

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KEI statement to 48th WIPO General Assemblies on the SCCR work program

Below is the statement delivered by KEI on Thursday, 23 September 2010 to the 48th WIPO General Assemblies on agenda item 27 dealing with Report on the Work of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR).

Statement of Knowledge Ecology International

48th Session of the WIPO ASSEMBLIES
Thursday, 23 September 2010

Item 27: Report on the Work of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR)

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Statement of Brazil to the 48th General Assembly of WIPO, September 2010

The Permanent Representative of Brazil, Roberto Azevedo, delivered the following statement to the 48th session of the WIPO General Assembly. The intervention was delivered in Portuguese; below is the English translation.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF WIPO

SEPTEMBER 2010

Statement Delivered by the Permanent Representative of Brazil, Ambassador Roberto Azevedo

Mr. Chairman,

Let me start by congratulating you on the excellent job you have been doing in conducting the work of WIPO’s General Assembly.

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