[Ecommerce] Deadline to register for Conference on UNESCO Convention

[Manon Ress]

If you're interested in cultural diversity, IP and a new international
instrument in the works, today is the last day to register for what will
an interesting DC conference (to prepare for the February UNESCO
drafting meeting in Paris?).

http://www.folklife.si.edu/explore/Education/unesco_convention.html

Speakers include (not too many public interest speakers but people will
be able to ask questions and make suggestions):

James Early, Conference Chair Director Cultural Heritage Policy,
Smithsonian  Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Richard Kurin, Director Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural
Heritage,  Member U.S. UNESCO Commission
Bonnie Richardson, Trade and Federal Affairs, Motion Picture Association
of America
Tyler Cowen, Professor of Economics at George Mason University and
member of  UNESCO's Expert Panel on Cultural Contents and Artistic
Expressions
Benjamin Barber, the Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society,
Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland;
Principal of the Democracy Collaborative
Peggy Bulger, Director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of
Congress
Ole Henrik Magga, Sami Chairman UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Young-Ing, Chair Indigenous People's Caucus, Creators Rights Alliance of
Canada
Suzan Shown Harjo, Cheyenne and Hodulgee, Muscogee, president of
Morningstar Institute, poet, writer, columnist, and policy advocate, and
a founding board member of the Smithsonian National Museum of the
American  Indian.
Nitis Jacon, Founding Member of La RED; President of Centro Cultural
Teatro Guaira
John McGuire, Senior Advisor, Screen Actors Guild and the Coalition for
Program Diversity


CPTech's page on the convention http://www.cptech.org/unesco/
ALA's page:
http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/WOissues/copyrightb/intlcopyright/unesco.htm
Media Trade Monitor page:
http://www.mediatrademonitor.org/cris-unesco.php



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Manon Anne Ress
manon.ress@cptech.org,
www.cptech.org

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