November 8 to November 12, 2010 WIPO Page on the Meeting SCCR 21: Initial impressions from day 1 SCCR 21: General statement of Group B (covering broadcasting, AV protection and limitations and exceptions) KEI statement at SCCR 21 SCCR21: Proposal… Continue Reading
June 21 to June 24, 2010 WIPO Page on the Meeting In preparation for the WIPO SCCR 20, on May 2010 WIPO organized an Open Ended Consultation on the treaty for the blind. A summary is available here. On June… Continue Reading
KEI’s page for WIPO. WIPO’s page on the SCCR meetings. KEI’s page on the broadcasting negotiations. KEI’s page on the Marrakesh treaty negotiations. Some special meetings of the SCCR Information Meeting on Developments in Broadcasting, (SCCR/IM/GE/09), May 25, 2009. Featured… Continue Reading
November 3 to November 7, 2008 WIPO Page on the meeting. Of Limitations, Exceptions and Verse (WIPO copyright committee) Pictures from SCCR 17 Wikileaks: US Cable on WIPO SCCR 17 meeting SCCR 17 final agreed upon text on persons with… Continue Reading
KEI has permanent observer status for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and has attended every SCCR meeting beginning in 2003, and monitors several other committees. KEI played a key role in the negotiations on the Marrakesh treaty for persons… Continue Reading
This does not yet have links to the TPP11 negotiations and agreement, after the US left. The May 11, 2015 consolidated text on the Intellectual Property Chapter of the TPP, with country positions. August 4, 2015 Press Release The May… Continue Reading
The governments of the United States, the European Commission, Japan, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Canada, and Mexico are negotiating a trade agreement named the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Despite the name, the agreement is designed to address not… Continue Reading
The USTR’s Special 301 Report has been issued every year beginning in 1989. The Executive Summary of the 2009 report says: The “Special 301” Report is an annual review of the global state of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection and… Continue Reading
KEI publishes research and commentary in a variety of journals, periodicals, books and other independent publishing platforms. In-house, KEI presents information in blogs, correspondence and reports, as well as in occasional KEI research notes and papers. Timelines (several) Timelines regarding… Continue Reading
Dr. Manon Ress is Director of Information Society Projects, as well as Administrative and Finance Officer at Knowledge Ecology International, a non-government organization with offices in Washington, DC and Geneva. She is an active participant at the World Intellectual Property Organization’s… Continue Reading