Author: Thiru

As mentioned in two previous KEI blogs, the WIPO’s First Intersessional Working Group received its mandate from the 16th WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) to ‘provide legal and technical advice and analysis, including, where appropriate, options and scenarios for consideration of the IGC’ including the outcomes, recommendations and texts relating to the discussion specifically on a working document containing draft provisions for a possible instrument for the protection of traditional cultural expressions/e Continue Reading →

From 19-23 July 2010, WIPO has convened an Intersessional Working Group to examine a WIPO document on ‘Revised Provisions for the Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions/Expressions of Folklore’ (WIPO/GRTKF/IC/17/4). Continue Reading →

On June 28, 2010, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) and IQsensato are co-hosting a workshop on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).

The Location of the meeting is the Maison des Associations, on Rue des Savoises 15, Geneva, in the Salle Gandhi.

Speakers

• Carlos Correa, University of Buenos Aires
• Erik Josefsson, Adviser, Greens/EFA-European Parliament
• James Love, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)

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On Wednesday, 23 June 2010, Barbados delivered the following intervention giving unequivocal support for the proposal for the Treaty for Reading Disabled Persons tabled by Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay and Mexico. The spirit of Barbados’ intervention is perhaps best encapsulated by this concluding statement:

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