[Ecommerce] Workshop on Future of WIPO, in Geneva September 13-14

[James Love]

On September 13 and 14, the TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue
(TACD) will host a two-day meeting in Geneva on the Future
of WIPO.  The meeting will bring together leading experts
and stakeholders from academia, industry, NGOs, and
governments, as well as members of the WIPO secretariat, to
discuss the future of this United Nations Agency.
(Registration Information given below)



                         Announcement
          The TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD)
                           Workshop

                      The Future of WIPO
                        September 13-14
                         CICG, Geneva

Program (v1.4)

Monday, September 13, 2004

Welcome

      Jim Murray -- TACD / BEUC
      US TACD Rep. TBA

Panel 1 -- What is the WIPO Mission?

Chair, Benedicte Federspiel, FBR
Panel Members:
      Mr. Philippe PETIT , WIPO, invited
      Rogier Wezenbeek, European Union
      Larry Lessig, Stanford
      Sisule Musungu, South Centre
      Sir John Sulston, the Sanger Institution

Panel 2 --  WIPO and the Information Society I

Chair:  Manon Ress, CPTech
Panel Members
      Richard Owens, WIPO
      Jukka Liedes, Ministry of Education and Culture,
Finland
      Volker Grassmuck, Humbold University Berlin,
      Michael Keplinger, USPTO
      Yochai Benkler, Yale

Panel 3  -- WIPO and Medical technologies

Chair, Sarah Lenz Lock, AARP
Panel Members
      Antony Taubman, WIPO
      Ellen =91t Hoen, MSF
      Tim Hubbard, Sanger Institution
      Eric Noehrenberg, IFPMA
      Sir John Sulston, the Sanger Institution
      William W. Fisher III, Harvard

Panel 4  --  WIPO and the Arts -- Relationships between
artists, owners of works, the public

Chair:    Machiel van der Velde Consumentenbond
Panel Members
      Publisher TBA
      Nick Ashton-Hart, Music Managers Association
      Cory Doctorow, EFF
      James Boyle, Duke University
      Yochai Benkler, Yale

Panel 5  -- WIPO and Technical Assistance.

Chairman: Anna Fielder, Consumers International
Panel Members
      Donny Cruz, WIPO
      Anthony So, Duke University
      Martin Khor, Third World Network
      David Vivas, ICTSD
      Jerome Reichman, Duke

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Tuesday, September 14, 2004

Panel 6  --   The role of WIPO in the area of patents

Chair:   Mark Silbergeld, Consumer Federation of America
Panel Members:
      Philippe Baechtold, WIPO
      Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation
      Philippe Aigrain, Sopinspace, Society for Public
Information Spaces
      Brian Kahin, University of Michigan
      D.G. Shah, Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance

Panel 7 --  WIPO and the Information Society II

Chair:    Ed Mierzwinski, PIRG
Panel Members
      Shira Perlmutter, Time-Warner
      Sarah Deutsch, Verizon
      Dr. Sothi Rachagan, Consumers International
      James Boyle, Duke University
      Publisher rep. TBA
      Richard Owens, WIPO, respondent

Panel 8 -- WIPO=92s and Access to Generic Resources,
Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore

Chair:    Michelle Childs, Consumers International
Panel Members
Panel Members:
      Tony Taubman, WIPO
      Chee Yoke Ling, Third World Network
      Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation
      Maria Julia Oliva, CIEL

Panel 9 -- What should the new WIPO mission be?

Chair:    TBA, Consumers International
Speakers
      Geoffrey Yu, WIPO (invited)
      James Love, CPTech
      Preeti Saran, India - Representative to WIPO
      Darius Cuplinskas, OSI
      Martin Khor, Third World Network
      Benedicte Federspiel, FBR


To register for this event (no fee), contact:

Ben Wallis
Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue Coordinator
Consumers International
mailto:bwallis@consint.org
24 Highbury Crescent
London N5 1RX
Tel: +44 20 7226 6663 Ext. 218

Location of event:
http://www.cicg.ch/

--
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