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A2K: (Access to Knowledge)On 9 May 2005, the Consumer Project on
Technology (CPTech.org) has released a draft Treaty on
Access to Knowledge.
You can find the text of the A2K draft
here.
I am not too clear about the precise status of this document which appears to be part of a lobbying effort related to WIPO's Development Agenda. WIPO's Development Agenda (or "item 12" as it is sometimes known from its position on the agenda) is more properly an agreement to examine proposals put forward by Argentina and Brazil for a development agenda. You can find the original proposal from Argentina and Brazil here and the WIPO General Assembly decision here (scroll to p.67 para. 218, a short summary of the proposal and initial responses starts at p. 33). Pursuant to that and with an eye to the topic's inclusion in the September 2005 session of the General Assembly), WIPO has 3 strands of development: 1) the holding of an Inter-sessional Intergovernmental Meeting on a Development Agenda for WIPO here which, from the report of the first Inter-sessional meeting, here, "given the need for indepth exmaination" has been adjourned for further consideration to 20 - 22 June and dates yet to be notified in July; 2) some attention to the topic has been suggested in the Permanent Committee on Cooperation for Development Related to Intellectual Property, however, any suggestion of that kind has been bitterly resisted by the proponents of the topic, see here via here; and 3) the International Seminar on Intellectual Property and Development, here. Looks like we should all be on a plane to Canberra to hear this! Posted: Friday - 20 May, 2005 at 12:18 PM | |