Reports and White Papers
IP Justice White Paper: “FTAA: A Threat to Freedom and Free Trade”
http://www.ipjustice.org/ftaa/whitepaper.shtml
IP Justice Santo Domingo Statement: “Why the Americas Should Resist Pressure to Adopt the FTAA’s Intellectual Property Rights Chapter”
http://www.ipjustice.org/FTAA//santodomingo.shtml
The UK Royal Society: “Keeping science open: the effects of intellectual property policy on the conduct of science”
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/files/statfiles/document-221.pdf
David Vivas-Eugui: “Regional and bilateral agreements and a TRIPS-plus world: the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)”
http://www.geneva.quno.info/pdf/FTAA%20(A4).pdf
TRIPS Issues Papers 1. Supplementary table: Simple legal text comparison of the TRIPS Agreement and FTAA Draft IPRs Chapter
http://www.geneva.quno.info/pdf/FTAASupptableA4.pdf
Sisule F Musungu and Graham Dutfield: “Multilateral agreements and a TRIPS-plus world: The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)”
http://www.geneva.quno.info/pdf/WIPO(A4)final.pdf
UNESCO, World Information Report 1997/98: “Copyright as Means of Controlling Flow of Ideas and Knowledge”
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/com_inf_reports/wirenglish/chap23.pdf
Computer Software and Electronic Commerce: “Development in the Information Age: Issues in the Regulation of Intellectual Property Rights”
http://www.iprsonline.org/unctadictsd/docs/Okediji_ECommerce.Dec03.pdf
Canadian Heritage Study: Part II of Study Rejecting Anti-Circumvention Laws
http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/ac-ca/progs/pda-cpb/pubs/protectionII/index_e.cfm
Universidad de Buenos Aires: “Recent International Developments in the Area of Intellectual Property Rights”
http://www.iprsonline.org/unctadictsd/bellagio/docs/Correa_Bellagio2.pdf
The Bellagio Series on Development and Intellectual Property Policy: “Integrating Intellectual Property Rights and Development Policy”
http://www.iprcommission.org/graphic/documents/final_report.htm
David Vivas Eugui (BRIDGES): “Intellectual Property in the FTAA: New Imbalances and Small Achievements”
http://www.iprsonline.org/ictsd/docs/VivasBridgesYear6N8NovDec2002.pdf
Ruth L. Okediji (BRIDGES): “Development in the Information Age: The Importance of Copyright”
http://www.iprsonline.org/ictsd/docs/copyrightBridges7-8.pdf
Doctors Without Borders / Medecins Sans Frontieres: “Trading Away Health: Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines ”
http://www.accessmed-msf.org/documents/FTAAdoc.pdf
Doctors Without Borders / Medecins Sans Frontieres: “FTAA Agreement Threatens Access to Affordable Medicines in the Americas”
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/pr/2003/08-28-2003.shtml
Oxfam International: “Make Trade Fair for the Americas - Agriculture, Investment and Intellectual Property: Three Reasons to Say No to the FTAA”
http://www.oxfam.org/eng/pdfs/pp030126_FTAA.pdf
VII Americas Business Forum: “Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights Report”
http://www.tecnibusiness.com/abf/ingles/in_t_taller8_conclusiones.htm
Health GAP Report on FTAA:
http://www.healthgap.org/camp/ftaa.html
Human Rights Watch briefing paper: “The FTAA, Access to HIV/AIDS Treatment, and Human Rights”
http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/10/ftaa1029-bck.htm
Action for Community and Ecology in the Regions of Central America Green Paper
http://www.asej.org/ACERCA/ftaa/ipr.htm
UNCTAD-ICTSD Project on Intellectual Property Rights and Sustainable Development
http://www.iprsonline.org/unctadictsd/projectoutputs.htm#policy
News Analysis and Commentary
ICTSD: “Civil Society Groups Outline Vision, Concerns for UNCTAD XI”
http://www.ictsd.org/weekly/03-11-19/story4.htm
Noticias: “GMO’s, Agri-Business, and the FTAA”
http://www.noticias.nl/global_eng_artikel.php?id=283
Samuel Trosow: “Digital Millennium Copyright Act - Does Canada Really Need It?”
http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/research/inforights/SamuelTrosow.htm (Powerpoint)
Communications Workers of America: “What is the FTAA and Why We Should Care”
http://www.cwa-union.org/international/ftaa_slideshow/FTAA5UNI.ppt (Powerpoint)
Third World Network: “United States pushes for greater IPR privileges in FTAA”
http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/pushes.htm
Brazzil: “FTAA: Brazil’s Poison Pill”
http://www.brazzil.com/2003/html/news/articles/jul03/p153jul03.htm
Inter Press Service: “U.S. Stance on FTAA Will Mean More Expensive Drugs - NGO”
http://www.aegis.com/news/ips/2002/IP021101.html
CorpWatch: USA: The FTAA and the AIDS Crisis in the Global South
http://www.corpwatch.org/bulletins/PBD.jsp?articleid=478
Starhawk’s 5 Reasons to Oppose the FTAA
http://www.starhawk.org/activism/activism-writings/fivereasons.html
Doctors Without Borders / Medecins Sans Frontieres: FTAA Petition
http://www.msf.org/ftaa/petition/international.htm
Other Organizations Commenting on the FTAA
Other organizations commenting on the FTAA.