2005 General Assembly 5 Oct. 2005 IP Justice Media Release on 2005 General Assembly Meeting 4 Oct. 2005 WIPO Press Release 425 "Member States Agree to Continue Development Agenda" 3 Oct. 2005 Text of Agreement of WIPO General Assembly on Development Agenda 3 Oct. 2005 IP-Watch, "New Committee for WIPO Development Agenda; Patents Reinvigorated" 1 [...]
Documents Related to the proposed WIPO the Broadcasting Treaty in 2005: 30 Nov. 2005 James Love: "The UN/WIPO Plan to Regulate Distribution of Info on the Net - Every Transmitter to Become an Owner" 23 Nov. 2005 IP Justice Statement on the Proposed Broadcasting Treaty at 13th Session of SCCR 21 Nov. 2005 IP Justice [...]
All media releases prior to March 1, 2006
All press clippings prior to January 1, 2006
Information about the Tunis Phase of the World Summit on the Information Society 14 -19 November 2005 in Tunis 30 Nov. 2005: IP-Watch, "Intellectual Property Rights Issues Kept Off WSIS Agenda" 25 Nov. 2005: Civil Society Letter to Kofi Annan reguarding human rights abuses at Tunis Summit IP Justice Executive Director Robin Gross' Address to [...]
IIM/3, 20-22 July 2005 IIM/2, 20-22 June 2005 IIM/1, 11-13 April 2005 General Assembly 31st meeting (GA/31), 27 September - 5 October 2004 and lead-ups to IIMs
11/23/2004 Updates WIPO Broadcasting Treaty Discussions end in Controversy, Confusion Broadcasting treaty will subvert rights of creators, say critics New Broadcasting Treaty Makes Progress at WIPO WIPO sidelines US' bid to include webcasting under copyright protection 11/19/2004 Updates Public Interest Groups Face Uphill Battle at WIPO 11/4/2004 Updates WIPO Secretariat ramps up the Pressure for [...]
Free Trade Implementation Bill, IP Chapter http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jsct/usafta/report/chapter16.pdf Trade bill in the Australian house, introduced at the request of the United States. Strongly opposed by education sector, librarians, civil libertarians, and economists. "Libraries Caught in Copyright Changes" The Age (AU) Transcript of Canberra Hearing in Australian Senate on trade bill aph.gov.au
Japan "File-sharing professor arrested for developing software" The Inquirer (UK) May 11, 2004 "Professor arrested over P2P software First such arrest of file-sharing developer in Japan " MS-NBC (USA) May 10, 2004
Campaign for an Open Digital Environment (CODE) www.IPJustice.org/CODE/ CODE is an international coalition of civil liberties groups and consumers' rights organizations to protect innovation, competition, and consumers' rights against the proposed EU Directive on Enforcement of Intellectual Property. "Protecting Civil Liberties, Competition and Innovation in the EU Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive" IP Justice Statement [...]