[Ecommerce] WIPO report on online forum for WSIS

[Manon Ress]

88 pages you can read over the weekend, right?
Manon

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) conducted an
Online Forum on Intellectual Property in the Information Society from
June 1 to 15, 2005, as a thematic meeting and part of the
Organization=92s contribution to the World Summit on the Information
Society (WSIS).

The Online Forum received some 52,000 visits, and 374 comments from a
wide variety of participants in different countries.  The discussions
were focused on ten themes, relating to intellectual property and how
it affects, and is affected by, the Information Society.  The ten
themes are:

1.    The WSIS Declaration of Principles sets out a vision for the
Information Society =96 how can the intellectual property system
support this vision?
2.    The intellectual property system and freedom of expression and
creativity:  help or hindrance?
3.    The public domain and open access models of information
creation:  at odds with the intellectual property system or enabled
by it?
4.    What is the impact of copyright law, both at international and
national levels, on education and research?
5.    What are the rights and responsibilities of intellectual
property rightsholders?
6.    Global partnerships to achieve the United Nations Millennium
Development Goals:  what role for intellectual property?
7.    How is intellectual property policy made for the Information
Society:  and who makes it?
8.    How can cultural and intellectual diversity of traditional
communities be respected in the Information Society?
9.    Emerging business models for distributing intellectual property
online:  opportunity or threat?
10.    What are the challenges for enforcement of intellectual
property rights in the digital environment?

This report on the WIPO Online Forum contains the background
commentaries on each of the ten themes, together with a brief
synopsis of the comments received, and background resources.  The
Online Forum, including all comments received, is accessible online
at the WIPO website at http://www.wipo.int/ipisforum/en/.

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