[wos] Oxford Conf.: Global IP from a Brazilian perspective

[Volker Grassmuck]

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Centre for Brazilian Studies

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

 

One-Day Conference

 

Global Intellectual Property from a Brazilian perspective

 

Friday 4 November 2005

 

To be held at the Centre for Brazilian Studies, 92 Woodstock Rd, Oxford

 

There is no conference fee but advanced registration is required.  Please register with your name and affiliation to enquiries at brazil.ox.ac.uk or on 01865 284460

 

Coordinators: Dr Ronaldo Lemos, Director, Centre for Technology and Society, Fundação Getúlio Vargas Law School, Rio de Janeiro, Project Lead, Creative Commons Brazil, and Ministry of Culture Visiting Fellow, Centre for Brazilian Studies 

Dr Christian Ahlert, Senior Research Associate, Michael Young Foundation. 

 

 

Brazil is at the forefront of a new movement challenging established Intellectual Property regimes in a variety of ways. In the past it has negotiated international conventions on drug patents to make HIV/AIDS medication available at cheaper prices. More recently, it has been promoting Open Source software to decrease dependency on proprietary software.

 

Given the tradition of a vibrant popular culture, especially music, Brazil is also embracing Creative Commons, an alternative copyright framework, which encourages the sharing and distribution of cultural works. In this context it is building the "Canto Livre" project; an archive and collaborative production platform on the Internet to produce and make music available to the world. Here again Brazil challenges established market forces. Music distribution, like the pharmaceutical sector or the computer and 
software market, is dominated by US and European companies. 

 

In addition, Brazil and Argentina were the proponents of a new agenda for the World Intellectual Property Organization, seeking to promote a more balanced international regime on Intellectual Property vis a vis the pursuit of development.

 

The aim of this conference is twofold: (a) to examine how Brazil's current cultural policies, which have their anthropological roots in "antropofagia" of the 1920s and "tropicalismo" of the 1960s, aim at adapting Intellectual Property law to better participate in global culture, and (b) to examine the role played by Intellectual Property in a technologically globalised world in order to promote access to knowledge and culture. 

 

The Oxford Centre for Brazilian Studies provides an excellent environment for exploring new and exciting cultural initiatives in Brazil which are at the intersection of law, culture and technology. 

 


Programme


 

 

10:00 - 10:15   Opening

 

 

Professor Leslie Bethell, Director, Centre for Brazilian Studies


Dr Ronaldo Lemos 


Dr Christian Ahlert


 

10:15 - 11:15 Session I: 'The Brazilian government's policy on intellectual property' 

 

Chair: Professor Leslie Bethell

 

Dr Barbara Rosenberg, Director, Secretary of Economic Defence, Ministry of Justice, Brasilia


Intellectual property rights in developing countries: a Brazilian perspective


 

 

11:15 - 11:45   Coffee

 

 

11:45 - 12:45   Session II: 'Internet architecture and access to information'

 

Chair: Professor Leslie Bethell

 

Professor Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation, Oxford Internet Institute, and Berkman Visiting Professor, Harvard University


The role of the intermediaries in Intellectual Property enforcement 


 

 

12:45 - 14:00   Lunch

 

 

14:00 - 15:45

 

Session III: 'Society and open content'

 

Chair: Dr Barbara Rosenberg

 


Dr Christian Ahlert 


The Open Business Project and its importance for development and access to knowledge 

 


Dr Ronaldo Lemos 


Creative commons and social content networks in developing countries: the case of Brazil

 

Commentator: Vera Franz, Program Manager, Open Society Institute 

 

 

15:45 - 16:15 Tea

 

 

16:15 - 18.00 Session IV: 'New hopes for and threats to access to knowledge' 

 

Chair: Dr Ronaldo Lemos

 


Claudio Prado, Director, Digital Culture Policies, Ministry of Culture, Brasilia  


Brazil: Leapfrogging from the 19th century directly to the 21st century 


 


Cory Doctorow, European Affairs Coordinator, Electronic Frontier Foundation, London


The Broadcast Flag: Hollywood wants a set-top-cop in your sitting room 


 

18.00 Close

 

 

  

92 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 7ND

Tel: 44 (0) 1865 284460

Fax: 44 (0) 1865 284461

Email: enquiries at brazil.ox.ac.uk

Web site: www.brazil.ox.ac.uk <http://www.brazil.ox.ac.uk/> 


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