Intellectual Property Rights / Droits de propriété intellectuelle

Permanent URI for this collection

Browse

Recent Submissions

Now showing 1 - 8 of 8
  • Item
    Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest
    (2011) American University; Fundação Getulio Vargas; Columbia University; International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
    This report is drawn from the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest. Policy making on Intellectual Property needs to be conducted through mechanisms of transparency and openness that encourage broad public participation. This can counter the expansion of concentrated legal authority exercised by intellectual property rights holders. Public interest advocates need to make a coordinated, evidence-based case for a critical re-examination of intellectual property maximalism. Alternatives that inhibit intellectual property expansion should include reforms that limit the granting or maintenance of patent rights where they are not justified by net benefits to the public. To view the Declaration, see: http://infojustice.org/washington-declaration
  • Item
    Protección de datos personales en las redes sociales digitales : en particular de niños y adolescentes; memorándum de Montevideo
    (Instituto de Investigación para la Justicia, Buenos Aires, AR, 2011) Gregorio, Carlos G.; Ornelas, Lina
  • Item
    Media piracy in emerging economies
    (Social Science Research Council, 2011) Karaganis, Joe
    The book provides a large-scale study of music, film and software piracy in the developing world. Industry estimates high rates of piracy in emerging markets: 68% for software in Russia; 82% for music in Mexico; 90% for movies in India. Tracing the explosive growth of piracy as digital technologies became cheap and ubiquitous around the world, the book follows the growth of industry lobbies that have reshaped laws and law enforcement around copyright protection. It argues that enforcement efforts have largely failed. The problem of piracy is better addressed as a failure of affordable access to media in legal markets.
  • Item
    Derechos y justicia y el movimiento social en internet (5 de agosto de 2009 - 20 de mayo de 2011)
    (Instituto de Investigación para la Justicia, AR, 2011) Albornoz, Belen; Barindelli, Florencia; Caballero, José A.; Duaso, Rosario; Esquivel, Walter
  • Item
    Media piracy and enforcement in Brazil : costs and benefits; toward détente in media piracy, Rio de Janeiro (August, 2010)
    (Instituto Overmundo, Rio de Janeiro, BR, 2010) Castro, Oona; Bandeira, Olívia; Moncau, Luiz; Mizukami, Pedro
    The project analyzed policing and enforcement measures, media coverage, and the legal framework and institutional field of combat against digital and media piracy; how it is done and by whom, in order to evaluate pros and cons of current laws; who is benefiting, and from what measures and approaches. The results have been positive for public debate and policy recommendations, and for creating an innovative approach to the problem of copyright violations and piracy. Brazilian approaches to intellectual property were originally shaped by import substitution strategies designed to foster the growth of local industry. With detailed appendices in Spanish.
  • Item
    Datos personales y libertad de expresión en las redes sociales digitales : memorándum de Montevideo
    (Ad-Hoc, Buenos Aires, AR, 2010) Barindelli, Florencia; Gregorio, Carlos G.
  • Item
    APC Access to knowledge / IP / Media Piracy Workshop, 7 April 2010, Sunnyside Park Hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa
    (IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA, 2010) Diga, Kathleen
    The workshop invited speakers from several IDRC projects and South African groups to present their work in the Open Access knowledge space, hosting about 40 participants from various sectors including representatives from the South Africa department of trade and industry (dti), public works, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), NGOs, media and other private sector firms. Presentations included Intellectual Property laws and access for the visually impaired, as well as Open Standards. Overall, the workshop succeeded in bringing intellectual property issues of the disadvantaged and for education purposes to the fore to a diverse group of participants.
  • Item
    Access to Africa's knowledge : publishing development research and measuring value
    (Learning Information Networking and Knowledge (LINK) Centre, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, ZA, 2010) Gray, Eve
    While open access publishing models offer solutions to the marginalization of African research, this paper argues for a re-evaluation of the values that underpin recognition in scholarly publishing. When it comes to implementing scholarly publication policies, the vision of technological power and development-focused scientific output is undermined by a conservative research culture that relies on competitive systems for valuing and accrediting scholarship, managed by powerful global commercial publishing consortia. A common reflex in a rapidly changing environment is reversion to traditional publishing models, and a few rich countries in the global North needlessly dominate the publication of research within this changing system.