Helpful text from USG on Creative Commons licenses
My more recent Huffington Post blog on the negotiations is here, including this update:
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Reject the WIPO Broadcast Treaty – Joint NGO Statement
United States intervention to WIPO plenary (Casting negotiations)
WIPO 2nd Special Session Day 2 – Summary of Notes
I arrived at WIPO yesterday for Day 1 which started at 12pm. The delegates and NGOs went for lunch at 1pm and the meeting started again in the afternoon. I’m not sure it was because of jetlag but the meeting did not make much sense. The Chair was re-elected (of course) and he just talked, talked and talked.
Day 2
WIPO Broadcasting Treaty negotiations commence
When customs authorities may allow infringing goods to be imported into the United States
Other Brown Bag Lunches at CPTech
May 30, 2007, "The New US Trade Agenda and Access to Medicines"
March 16, 2007, Robin Hanson on “Why Grants Won Over Prizes in Science.”
March 15, 2007. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr presents on "The Gene Revolution: GM Crops and Unequal Development."
Prize4Life
Prize4Life is an effort to accelerate treatments for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It was created by 32 year old Avichai “Avi” Kremer. According to news reports Kremer was diagnosed with ALS in 2004, and has only a few years to live. He started Prize4Life to raise money for prizes to stimulation research.
Here are some extracts from this moving story in the March 28 issue of the Boston Globe:
IGWG Briefing Paper on Patent Pools
Sunday, 03 June 2007
IGWG Briefing Paper on Patent Pools
Collective Management of Intellectual Property — The use of Patent Pools to expand access to essential medical technologies
KEI Research Note 2007:3 (1)
2005: Letter of 162 experts asking World Health Organization to evaluate a proposed treaty framework for medical research and development.
The attached is a February 24, 2005 letter signed by 162 experts, asking the World Health Organization to Evaluate New Treaty Framework for Medical Research and Development The proposal for a Medical R&D Treaty (MRDT) was designed as an alternative… Continue Reading