[Ecommerce] Background documents for Ecommerce Roundtable Brown Bag Lunch tomorrow March 6, 2003

[Manon Anne Ress]

Links to background documents for Ecommerce Roundtable Brown Bag Lunch
March 6, 2003 at Public Knowledge, 1875 Connecticut Ave, Suite 650, 
Washington DC 20009

Background Documents on the Hague Convention
http://www.cptech.org/ecom/jurisdiction/hague.html
Latest document: February 2003 Document 21 Report on January 2003 
meeting (includes new “draft” in the Annex)
Hague Conference: http://www.hcch.net/e/workprog/index.html

Background documents on UNCITRAL E-contracting Convention:
Useful UNCITRAL Secretariat documents:
Working Paper 91, Legal Aspects of Electronic Contracting.... (WP.91) -- 
Paragraphs 20-29 (what are “goods”?, virtual goods, software etc), which 
is available at the UNCITRAL website:
http://www.uncitral.org/english/workinggroups/wg_ec/wp-91e.pdf
A/CN.9/484 - The  Report of the Working Group on the work of its 
thirty-eighth session (New York, 12-23 March 2001) -- Paragraphs 114-118 
(notions of “goods”, differences between sales and licensing contracts) 
available at:
http://www.uncitral.org/english/sessions/unc/unc-34/acn-484e.pdf
A/CN.9/527 - Report of Working Group IV (Electronic Commerce) on the 
work of its fortieth session (Vienna, 14-18 October 2002), Paragraphs 
90-93 (IP and scope), available at:
http://www.uncitral.org/english/sessions/unc/unc-36/acn9-527-e.pdf
The draft convention (15 Articles) was included as an Appendix to the 
Secretariat's Working Paper WP.95 at the UNCITRAL Website.
http://www.uncitral.org/english/workinggroups/wg_ec/wp-95e.pdf
To get announcements on teleconference, write to:
Bill Luddy <wjl@rh.edu>

Background Documents on WIPO Summit in China
http://www.wipo.org/summit-china/en/	
CPTech’s letter to Lois Boland, USPTO
http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/random-bits/2003-February/001033.html
March 6, 2003

Background Documents on FTAA
CPTech’s Page on the FTAA (includes recent comments on second draft)
http://www.cptech.org/ip/ftaa/

Background Documents on WSIS
http://www.itu.int/wsis/index.html
http://www.state.gov/e/eb/cip/wsis/
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Manon Anne Ress
Consumer Project on Technology
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