[A2k] 11 March 2008: WIPO SCCR lunchtime seminar on The Value of Exceptions and Limitations in the Information Society

[Thiru Balasubramaniam]

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Electronic Information for Libraries, the International Federation of
Library Associations and Institutions, Knowledge Ecology International
and the Library Copyright Alliance



cordially invite delegates attending the Standing Committee on
Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) Sixteenth Session to join us for a
lunchtime discussion on the topic of Exceptions and Limitations



Moderators: Ahmed Abdel Latif (ICTSD) and Winston Tabb (IFLA)

Maximiliano Santa Cruz, Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Chile

The value of exceptions and limitations for education and development:
perspective of a Member State

Sisule Musungu, IQ Sensato and Yale Law School

Conceiving an international instrument on limitations and exceptions
to copyright

(Presentation of a study by Prof. Ruth L. Okediji, S. Robins
Distinguished Research Fellow, University of Minnesota Law School and
Prof. P. Bernt Hugenholtz, Director of the Institute for Information
Law University of Amsterdam)

Benjamin White, British Library

Giving value to the economy, education and culture: the role of
libraries

James Love, Knowledge Ecology International

Rationale and strategies for remunerative exceptions to exclusive rights

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Thiru Balasubramaniam
Geneva Representative
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)
thiru@keionline.org


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