Quite a bit of KEI’s work has involved the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). To locate relevant articles, you can use the KEI web page search engine (see the “Search this site” form), or one of the various taxonomy terms for WIPO, including WIPO.
The following is the written statement for the record that KEI has provided to the WIPO General Assembly, on the topic of the work program for the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR).
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) recommends that the topic of the broadcast treaty be removed from the SCCR agenda, for the following reasons.
This is the intervention Australia made on agenda item 25 on the SCCR at the 2009 WIPO General Assembly. Australia supported the “the dual approach of the stakeholder’s platform as well as examining the possibility of an international instrument”.
On September 28, 2009, the United States of America delivered the following intervention on agenda item 25 concerning the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) at the 47 Session of the Assemblies of the Member States of WIPO.
US Statement
Agenda item 25
Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights
In May 2009, at the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) 18th session, the governments of Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay formally tabled a proposal (SCCR/18/5) to WIPO endorsing the World Blind Union’s Treaty for Reading Disabled Persons. The States’ proposal has generated a flurry of activity including meetings scheduled in Belgium, Egypt, India and the United States related to the Treaty, norm setting, orphan works and limitations and exceptions to copyright. Continue Reading →
In WIPO, Group B is a club of high income countries. This is the statement Group B delivered in the Agenda item for general statements, at the 2009 WIPO GA.
September 21, 2009
47th Series of Meetings of WIPO
Geneva, September 22 to October 1, 2009
WIPO has elected two vice-chairs for the GA, Tunisia and Turkey. Tunisia now chairing.
Chile made a very nice statement on the public domain, copyright L&E, and access to knowledge.
The Tunisia chair just ruled that NGOs cannot speak today, and may only submit written statements. We may have opportunity later this week. The excuse was the “long list” of NGOs, but that not true. There were only about 4 or 5 on the list, including KEI, TWN and the WBU.
The following is the statement that the United States asked be included in the record for Agenda item 5 (General Statements) of the 2009 WIPO General Assembly.
World Intellectual Property Organization
Assemblies of the Member States
September 22 to October 1, 2009