[Ecommerce] The WIPO Work Program - October 17 meeting in Lisbon

[James Love]

This is the agenda for an October 17 meeting in Lisbon on the work
program of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The
event is being organizated by the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue
(TACD) and Consumers International. People who want to attend this event
should contact Ben Wallis or Lalani de Silva.
Ben Wallis <bwallis@consint.org>
Lalani de Silva <ldesilva@consint.org>



The WIPO Work Program
Friday October 17, 2003
Centro Cultural de Belem
Praca Do Interio 1400 Lisboa

9.00 - 9.15 Welcome and introduction, James Love, CPTech and
Machiel van der Velde, Consumentenbond

9.15 - 10.30 What is WIPO?
What does it do, how is it governed?

Moderator: Jean Ann Fox, Director, Consumer Federation
of America

Panel:

Professor Michael Blakeney, Director of the IP
Research Institute, Queen Mary, University of
London
Sisule Fredrick Musungu, Consultant, South Centre
Philippe Baechtold, Head of Patent Law Section, WIPO


10.30-10.45 Break


10:45-12.00 Copyright and related rights, Digital
Agenda I
How does WIPO balance the interests of creators, users
and right-owners?

Moderator: Machiel van der Velde, Policy Officer,
Consumentenbond
Panel:

Marla Poor, Attorney Advisor, US Copyright Office
Rogier Wezenbeek, DG Internal Market, European
Commission
Manon Ress, Research Associate, Consumer Project on
Technology
Nick Ashton-Hart, Executive Director, International
Music Managers Forum
Richard Stallman, President, Free Software Movement


12.00-13.15 Copyright and related rights, Digital
Agenda II
What should WIPO do about new technologies?

Moderator: Michelle Childs, Head of Policy Research,
Consumers Association
Panel: Representative of WIPO, TBA
Dr Sothi Rachagan, Regional Director Consumers
International Asia Pacific Office
Sarah Deutsch, VP & Associate General Counsel,
Verizon
Volker Grassmuck, Researcher, Humboldt
University, Berlin
Michael Geist, Professor, Ottawa Law School,
Canada



13.15-14.15 Lunch


14:15-15:45 WIPO Patent Agenda I
What is WIPO doing to change patent policy, and why is it
doing it?

Moderator: Louise Sylvan, President of Consumers
International (to be confirmed)
Panel: Philippe Baechtold, Head of Patent Law
Section, WIPO
Carlos Correa, Professor, University of Buenos
Aires
Sisule Fredrick Musungu, Consultant, South
Centre
Ellen T=92Hoen, Co-ordinator, M=E9decins Sans
Fronti=E8res
Diane Terblanche, Manager of Enforcement, South
Africa Competition Commission


15:45 to 16:00 Break


16:00-17:00 WIPO Patent Agenda II
What are the views of creators and users on the WIPO
patents agenda?

Moderator: Jean Halloran, Director, Consumers Union

Panel:

Dr Tim Hubbard, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Dr Kumariah Balasubramaniam, Advisor and Co-
ordinator, Health Action International Asia - Pacific
Richard Stallman, President, Free Software Movement


17:15-18:00 Roundtable: What should WIPO be doing in
this century?


Moderator: Darius Cuplinskas, Director, Information
program, The Open Society Institute

Panel:

Carlos Correa, Professor, University of Buenos Aires
Sisule Fredrick Musungu, Consultant, South Centre
Michelle Childs, Head of Policy Research, Consumers
Association
Christine Haight Farley, Professor of Law,
Washington College of Law
James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology

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James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology
http://www.cptech.org, mailto:james.love@cptech.org
tel. +1.202.387.8030, mobile +1.202.361.3040