14 Jul, 2008: WIPO Development Agenda committee deliberations on norm-setting, open source and creative commons (KEI)
"The WIPO Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) had rich discussions on Thursday afternoon (July 10, 2008) on norm-setting, open source and creative commons as they related to recommendations 22 and 23 of the Development Agenda. Recommendation 22 states: WIPO’s norm-setting activities should be supportive of the development goals agreed within the UN system, including those contained ...

14 Jul, 2008: WIPO Enriched by In-Depth Discussion of Public Domain (KEI)
"With respect to the public domain, Richard Owens (WIPO Secretariat) noted that there is a fundamental question of definition that frames the policy debate on this issue. The classical definition of the public domain (in the copyright context) is “what is not protected by copyright, i.e. rights that have expired, works that have not been deemed worthy of protection, and ...

15 Mar, 2008: WIPO Copyright Committee Considers Many Proposals for 2008 Work Program
WIPO Copyright Committee: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back  'Broadcast Treaty Chair' Remains, Limitations and Exceptions to Copyright Considered (15 March 2008)  The WIPO Copyright Committee (SCCR) met from 10-12 March 2008 in Geneva to debate the future work program for the committee after the Member States ...

4 Mar, 2008: WIPO: Discussion begins on implementing the Development Agenda (SUNS)
"Discussion on defining a work programme for implementation of the 45 adopted recommendations on the WIPO Development Agenda began on Monday in the newly-established WIPO Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP). Much of the first day of the CDIP was spent discussing procedural issues such as the adoption of the rules of procedure of the committee and how ...

21 Dec, 2007: 2008 Brings Prospect of New WIPO Leader, Budget Agreement (IP-Watch)
"Informal discussions with diplomatic sources in Geneva revealed seemingly more than a dozen possible names of [WIPO Director General] candidates at least, though none have been officially presented and none were confirmed with the governments themselves. Some countries had more than one name circulating. This list is not intended to be official nor comprehensive. The preliminary list includes ...

19 Dec, 2007: Broadcast Treaty Resuscitated by the Council of Europe (EDRi)
Pending the approval of its Committee of Ministers, the Council of Europe will try to promote a new broadcasting international document, building on the failed convention for the protection of broadcasting signals of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). As WIPO's 184 members have failed in agreeing upon a text for the treaty and as the conference for a ...

5 Nov, 2007: WIPO Committees Casting About For Future Work (IP-Watch)
WIPO enforcement committee last week heard from a series of intellectual property rights enforcers and others before attempting unsuccessfully to agree on the future work and moving to consultations till February. Meanwhile, separate consultations are continuing for a mandate for the WIPO copyright committee whose meeting has been postponed to next year.... WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights ...

22 Oct, 2007: Developing Countries Get Perspective On IP And Enforce (IP-Watch)
There is more to the story of enforcing intellectual property rights than one typically reads in the media, and developing country governments should defend themselves against unfair enforcement practices, officials and activists said recently. Speakers gave their views at a 9 October event of the intergovernmental South Centre entitled, Examining IP Enforcement from a Development Perspective...

29 Sep, 2007: WIPO Launches New Agenda on IP and Development (IP-Watch)
"The member governments of the World Intellectual Property Organization on Friday formally adopted a new Development Agenda, launching an enhanced development orientation across all of its activities, with details on implementation to be determined later. “This is an important day,” Argentina Ambassador Alberto Dumont told a press briefing. “Our group is very pleased with the result that was achieved.” But ...

28 Sep, 2007: Decision on the WIPO Broadcast Treat at 2007 General Assembly
"The General Assembly is invited to ... decide that the subject of broadcasting organizations and cablecasting organizations be retained on the agenda of the SCCR for its regular sessions and consider convening of a Diplomatic Conference only after agreement on objectives, specific scope and object of protection has been achieved.''

16 Jul, 2007: Chile spearheads change at WIPO patent committee (KEI)
"In the wake of the recently concluded broadcasting negotiations at WIPO in June 2007 (Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights) where a proposed instrument for the protection of broadcasting organizations was put on cold storage but not terminated, a Chilean proposal on the examination of limitations and exceptions in the copyright area has come to the fore. Chile ...

15 Jul, 2007: “Thoughts in Color” on WIPO Development Agenda as the Dust Settles …
15 July 2007. Geneva-based policy analyst and advisor Sisule F. Musungu published an analysis on his new blog of recent discussions at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the organization's adoption of a "Development Agenda" to better protect the public interest. One outcome of the June WIPO Development Agenda ...

9 Jul, 2007: WIPO Development Agenda: As the dust settles … (Sisule F. Musungu)
"On 26 August 2004, in a sleepy international Geneva; deep into the European summer, the Delegations of Argentina and Brazil in Geneva submitted a proposal for the Establishment of a Development Agenda for WIPO to be considered at the WIPO General Assembly scheduled for 27 September to 5 October 2004. By the time of the General Assembly, one month ...

22 Jun, 2007: WIPO Broadcasting Treaty Talks Sent Back To Committee (IP Watch)
"World Intellectual Property Organization members on Friday recommended to move talks on a proposed broadcasters’ and cablecasters’ treaty back to committee level for further consideration, a day after rejecting a proposal to elevate the issue to formal treaty negotiations. The move could signify a shelving of the issue, some nine years after discussions first began. The issue of updating the ...

20 Jun, 2007: WIPO Side-Event Highlights Exceptions, Limitations In Broadcasting Treaty (IP Watch)
"n Concerns that a new treaty on broadcasting being discussed at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) this week will be unbalanced, providing extra protection rights for broadcasters and further limits to users, was the topic of an event alongside the negotiation. The impact on developing countries was of particular concern. ..."