From muguet at mdpi.net Fri Dec 5 06:47:01 2008 From: muguet at mdpi.net (Dr. Francis MUGUET) Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:47:01 +0100 Subject: [Wsis-pct] TACD conference, Washington, 12-13 janvier 2009 In-Reply-To: <9b5939b20812040745ofe12b77yd41ee1589e2bee10@mail.gmail.com> References: <9b5939b20812040745ofe12b77yd41ee1589e2bee10@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4938C055.9050906@mdpi.net> FWD / FYI http://www.tacd-ip.org/blog/?page_id=5 Patents, Copyrights and Knowledge Governance: The Next Four Years Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) Workshop /*Patents, Copyrights and Knowledge Governance: The Next Four Years*/ January 12-13, 2009 Venue: The Carnegie Institution, 1530 P Street, NW, Washington, DC *Registration on TACD's website .* As a new Administration will take office in Washington, and the European Union renews its institutions, what should the political agenda be for intellectual property? The globalisation of the challenges faced by consumers and rights holders have made intellectual property policy one of the main features of global trade policy, and stimulated both international and domestic debates about how best to promote innovation and access to knowledge, including "knowledge embedded" goods such as medicine, software, agriculture, inventions that address climate change, scholarly research, databases, films or recorded music. Both the United States and the European Union are facing demands to modify policies on patents, copyrights and other forms of intellectual property protection, coming from different perspectives. There are high profile right-owner lobbying efforts directed at higher standards and tougher enforcement of intellectual property rights, and growing interest among consumer groups, academics and many innovative businesses to protect the public domain and retain or even expand user rights. There is also much interest in exploring newer approaches to the support of creative and inventive communities, that do not rely on notions of exclusive rights. With the organisation of this event, the TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue calls for two days of discussion on the assessment and on the prospective of the American and European political and policy Agenda on intellectual property practices and policies ------------------------------------------------------- Bonjour ? tous, Le /Dialogue Trans Atlantique des consommateurs/ (TACD) organise une conf?rence ? Washington, DC, les 12 et 13 janvier 2009, sur le th?me de la propri?t? intellectuelle : *"Patents, Copyrights and Knowledge Governance: the next four years".* Vous trouverez plus de d?tails sur le programme de la conf?rence sur notre blog : http://www.tacd-ip.org/blog/?page_id=5 Cet ?v?nement a pour but de (se) ? pr?parer ? (?) la nouvelle administration pr?sidentielle am?ricaine, pendant deux jours de r?flexion et de discussion entre membres du /TACD/ et d'?minents sp?cialistes, dont deux Prix Nobels, Joseph Stiglitz et Eric Maskin. A une semaine de l'investiture de Barack Obama, et ? quelques mois des ?lections europ?ennes, cette conf?rence s'inscrit dans un calendrier politique particuli?rement propice ? l'?coute de nos diverses revendications. *Diffusion et promotion de l'?v?nement sur blogs et sites bienvenues !* Les participants fran?ais sont bienvenus ! Si vous voulez vivre la semaine d'inauguration sur place.... ? bon entendeur :) Nous aurons l'honneur d'accueillir Philippe qui interviendra sur l'un des panels ! A bient?t. Anne-Catherine -- Anne-Catherine Lorrain Intellectual Property Policy Expert The TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) Avenue de Tervueren, 36 Bte 4 1040 Bruxelles - Belgium aclorrain at consint.org http://www.tacd.org http://www.tacd-ip.org/blog https://www.aclorrain.fr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/wsis-pct/attachments/20081205/7c2ff9cc/attachment.htm