[Ecommerce] WIPO Development Agenda and A2K paper

[Pedro de Paranaguá Moniz]

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Dear All,

It is with pleasure that I send you the link to my LLM dissertation at
the Uni. of London (under supervision of Dr. Graham Dutfield), titled:
*The Development Agenda for WIPO: Another Stillbirth? A Battle Between
Access to Knowledge and Enclosure*

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=844366

*Abstract: *
The private sector has played and continues to play a decisive role in
the shaping of policy-making concerning knowledge-based goods. The
result is an unequal battle between access to knowledge and enclosure
favouring the latter over the former. Such an unbalanced scenario
chiefly affects the South, but has implications for the public
everywhere. The Development Agenda being proposed for adoption by the
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and which has been
advocated for and designed by developing countries governments in
collaboration with a coalition of governments, academics, civil society
and public interest NGOs from both North and South, is the latest
attempt to bring a balance to this scenario. However, the Development
Agenda is encountering opposition and despite the unique nature of the
coalition backing it, the outcome is uncertain.

Feel free to download it, read it, copy it, distribute it, and put a
link of it into your website, however please mention the authorship.

I hope you will enjoy it.

Best wishes,

Pedro de Paranaguá Moniz