[ox-en] Fwd: Oxford Conf.: Global IP from a Brazilian perspective
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- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 07:50:16 +0200
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From: "Volker Grassmuck"
Subject: [wos] Oxford Conf.: Global IP from a Brazilian perspective
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Centre for Brazilian Studies
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
One-Day Conference
Global Intellectual Property from a Brazilian perspective
Friday 4 November 2005
To be held at the Centre for Brazilian Studies, 92 Woodstock Rd, Oxford
There is no conference fee but advanced registration is required. Please register with your name and affiliation to enquiries brazil.ox.ac.uk or on 01865 284460
Coordinators: Dr Ronaldo Lemos, Director, Centre for Technology and Society, Fundação Getúlio Vargas Law School, Rio de Janeiro, Project Lead, Creative Commons Brazil, and Ministry of Culture Visiting Fellow, Centre for Brazilian Studies
Dr Christian Ahlert, Senior Research Associate, Michael Young Foundation.
Brazil is at the forefront of a new movement challenging established Intellectual Property regimes in a variety of ways. In the past it has negotiated international conventions on drug patents to make HIV/AIDS medication available at cheaper prices. More recently, it has been promoting Open Source software to decrease dependency on proprietary software.
Given the tradition of a vibrant popular culture, especially music, Brazil is also embracing Creative Commons, an alternative copyright framework, which encourages the sharing and distribution of cultural works. In this context it is building the "Canto Livre" project; an archive and collaborative production platform on the Internet to produce and make music available to the world. Here again Brazil challenges established market forces. Music distribution, like the pharmaceutical sector or the computer and
software market, is dominated by US and European companies.
In addition, Brazil and Argentina were the proponents of a new agenda for the World Intellectual Property Organization, seeking to promote a more balanced international regime on Intellectual Property vis a vis the pursuit of development.
The aim of this conference is twofold: (a) to examine how Brazil's current cultural policies, which have their anthropological roots in "antropofagia" of the 1920s and "tropicalismo" of the 1960s, aim at adapting Intellectual Property law to better participate in global culture, and (b) to examine the role played by Intellectual Property in a technologically globalised world in order to promote access to knowledge and culture.
The Oxford Centre for Brazilian Studies provides an excellent environment for exploring new and exciting cultural initiatives in Brazil which are at the intersection of law, culture and technology.
Programme
10:00 - 10:15 Opening
Professor Leslie Bethell, Director, Centre for Brazilian Studies
Dr Ronaldo Lemos
Dr Christian Ahlert
10:15 - 11:15 Session I: 'The Brazilian government's policy on intellectual property'
Chair: Professor Leslie Bethell
Dr Barbara Rosenberg, Director, Secretary of Economic Defence, Ministry of Justice, Brasilia
Intellectual property rights in developing countries: a Brazilian perspective
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee
11:45 - 12:45 Session II: 'Internet architecture and access to information'
Chair: Professor Leslie Bethell
Professor Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation, Oxford Internet Institute, and Berkman Visiting Professor, Harvard University
The role of the intermediaries in Intellectual Property enforcement
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:45
Session III: 'Society and open content'
Chair: Dr Barbara Rosenberg
Dr Christian Ahlert
The Open Business Project and its importance for development and access to knowledge
Dr Ronaldo Lemos
Creative commons and social content networks in developing countries: the case of Brazil
Commentator: Vera Franz, Program Manager, Open Society Institute
15:45 - 16:15 Tea
16:15 - 18.00 Session IV: 'New hopes for and threats to access to knowledge'
Chair: Dr Ronaldo Lemos
Claudio Prado, Director, Digital Culture Policies, Ministry of Culture, Brasilia
Brazil: Leapfrogging from the 19th century directly to the 21st century
Cory Doctorow, European Affairs Coordinator, Electronic Frontier Foundation, London
The Broadcast Flag: Hollywood wants a set-top-cop in your sitting room
18.00 Close
92 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 7ND
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Web site: www.brazil.ox.ac.uk <http://www.brazil.ox.ac.uk/>
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