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Third
CopySouth Workshop
International Conference on Copyright Issues
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The
CopySouth
Research Group (CSRG) invites you to attend and join in the debates at
its three day international conference on copyright to be held in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil at the end of June.
It is an important moment to discuss these issues. In 1710 –
exactly three hundred years ago – the first copyright law in
the
world was enacted in England. Is this an anniversary worth celebrating?
Around the world, the antiquated assumptions of copyright law and
ideology are again being questioned and new conflicts are breaking out.
In Brazil, for example, more than 500 musicians, writers, academics and
others signed an open letter in late May calling on their government to
reform its copyright laws so that users can have more access to music
and books. Meanwhile, the well-financed campaign against so-called
copyright “piracy” has become even more vocal and
threatens
us all… except large corporations. Although three of the
most
important countries in the global South – China, India and
Brazil
– were not even invited to the talks, a new anti-piracy
treaty
called ACTA is about to be signed by rich nations in North America and
Europe, as well as Japan and a few smaller countries.
As we meet, a list of long-standing and complex questions is demanding
new answers. Do most musicians benefit from the copyright system and
the current way that the music industry is organised? How can we
promote far more access to educational materials in the countries of
South America, Africa and Asia than already exists? And, speaking of
access and sharing, why do so many ideas and so many cultural products
flow from the North to the South… and why do so few flow the
other way? Can we justify the current economic logic of the global
copyright system? And what are viable alternatives to the current
system?
To address these questions and many more that you may want to raise,
the CSRG has assembled a group of leading critical researchers,
musicians and activists from around the world to come to Rio and to
speak on seven panels. The speakers are from Brazil (7), Chile (1),
Bolivia (1), Cuba (2), the United States (3), South Africa (2), Ghana
(1), the Philippines (2), Switzerland (1), and the United Kingdom (2).
We expect some strong opinions to be voiced and some good open debates
to occur. So we extend an open invitation to all people interested in
these issues, such as students, librarians, teachers, researchers,
musicians and information activists, to attend.
There will be simultaneous interpretation in Portuguese, Spanish and
English.
Hope
see
you in Rio on 28 June.
The
CopySouth Research Group
May 2010
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DETAILS
OF THE CONFERENCE
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DATES: 28-30 June 2010.
TIME: 8:00 to 18:00
PLACE:
Salão Nobre, Serviço Geológico do
Brasil (CPRM),
Escritório do Rio de Janeiro, Av. Pasteur, 404 –
3°
andar – Urca, 22290-240 Rio de Janeiro, BRASIL. (This venue
is
located less than 250 metres from UNIRIO – Federal University
of
the State of Rio de Janeiro)
NOTES:
- On the afternoon of June 30
there will be a musical performance by two musicians from Switzerland.
- This is the third CopySouth
Workshop. Previous
conferences were held in the UK in 2005 and India in 2008. For more on
the CSRG go to www.copysouth.org/.
- Funding for this event is
provided by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council and from
HIVOS in The Netherlands.
- If you have further questions
about this conference, contact either: copysouth.rio2010@gmail.com
or contact@copysouth.org.
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CONFERENCE
SCHEDULE
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7:00-8:00 – Conference
Registration
8:00-8:30
– Conference Welcome and Opening. Alan Story,
Debora Halbert, Nanci Oddone (CopySouth Research Group). Chair:
Nanci Oddone (Brazil)
8:30-10:30
– Panel 1 – Piracy, File Sharing and
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Kavita Philip
(US), Alan Story (UK), Tulio Vianna (Brazil). Chair:
Denis Barbosa (Brazil)
10:30-11:00
– Coffee break
11:00-13:00
– Panel 2 – North-South Cultural Flows and Cultural
Diversity. Boatema Boateng (Ghana/US), Debora Halbert
(US), Lillian Alvarez (Cuba). Chair:
Colin Darch (South Africa)
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8:00-10:00 – Panel 3
– Access, Circulation and Use of Knowledge. Alberto
Cerda (Chile), Pablo Ortellado (Brazil), Alejandro Rivero (Cuba). Chair: Sarita
Albagli (Brazil)
10:00-10:30
– Coffee break
10:30-12:30
– Panel 4
– E-books, G-books & S-books. Electronics Books,
Google Books
& SciELO Electronic Books Project. Nanci Oddone
(Brazil), Alan Story (UK), Renato Murasaki (Brazil). Chair:
Pablo Ortellado (Brazil)
12:30-13:30
– Lunch break
13:30-15:30
– Panel 5 – Alternatives and Resistance to
Copyright. Fatima Lasay (Phillipines), Jhessica Reia
(Brazil), Roberto Verzola (Phillipines). Chair: Alan
Story (UK)
15:30-16:00
– Coffee break
16:00-18:00
– Panel 6 – Musicians and the Copyright System. Mat
Callahan (Switzerland), Juan Carlos Cordero (Bolivia), Henry Stobart
(UK). Chair:
Pedro Paranaguá (Brazil)
18:00-18:30
– Musical Performance. Mat Callahan e Yvonne
Moore (Switzerland)
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8:00-10:00
– Panel 7 – The Political Economy of
Copyright. Colin Darch (South Africa), Alain Herscovici
(Brazil),
Marcos Dantas (Brazil). Chair:
Roberto Verzola (Phillipines)
10:00-10:30
– Coffee break
10:30-12:30
– Conference Assessment and Closing. Alan Story,
Debora Halbert, Nanci Oddone (CopySouth Research Group). Chair:
Debora Halbert (US)
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Please note: If Brazil is
playing in a
World Cup football
match later in the afternoon of 28 or 29 June at 15:30, we will end the
conference at 13:00 that day so that everyone will be able to watch the
match on TV.
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CONFERENCE
SPEAKERS
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Alain Herscovici
has a Ph.D. in Economics
from the Universities of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and
Amiens. He is the
Coordinator of the Study Group in Macroeconomics (GREM) and the Study
Group on
Economics of Culture, Information, Knowledge and Communication
(GEECICC) of the
Post Graduate in Economics, at Federal University of Espirito Santo
(UFES). He is also
a professor and
coordinator of the Masters, a research associate at the Maison des
Sciences de
l `Homme de Paris Nord, and a researcher at the National Council for
Scientific
and Technological Development. His research relates to Macroeconomic
Analysis,
Economic Epistemology, Economics of Information, Culture and
Communication,
Economics of Intellectual Property Rights, New Law and Economics and
the Internet
Economy. Email: alhersco.vix(A)terra.com.br |
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Alan Story has
taught intellectual property law at
Kent Law School in the United Kingdom since 1999. He is a Canadian and
a former
journalist. He is primarily interested in the critical analysis of a
range of
copyright issues in the global South and is writing a book on this
subject. His
publications are available at: http://www.kent.ac.uk/law/research/profiles/story.html.
He is one of the founding members of CopySouth and serves on its
Coordinating
Committee. Email: acs3(A)kent.ac.uk |
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Alberto Cerda Silva is
a Professor in Cyber Law at the University of Chile Law School. He also
holds a
Masters in Public Law from the University of Chile ad a LL.M. in
International
Legal Studies from Georgetown University. He has been the Studies
Director of the
NGO, Derechos Digitales, and a Legal Leader of Creative Commons - Chile. Additionally, he has been a member of the Executive Secretary for the
Committee of Ministries for Digital Development, the
Working Group of
Norms and Standards for Digital Document Committee, and the National
Commission
for Domain Name System and IP Numbers, among others.
Currently, he is pursuing his doctoral degree in law
as a
Fulbright Commission scholar. Email:
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Alejandro
Caballero Rivero
is a specialist in Science and Technology at the Academy of Sciences of
Cuba. Alejandro’s area of emphasis is on issues related to
access to
scientific information in the developing world. Alejandro is a member
of the Steering Committee of the InterAcademy Panel on International
Issues (IAP) Program on Promoting Access to and Use of Digital
Knowledge Resource for Developing Countries. He is coordinating the IAP
Open Institutional Repository Infrastructure Network for Central
America and the Caribbean project. He holds a Masters Degree in
Management of Science and Technology from the José Antonio
Echeverría
Higher Polytechnic Institute, Cuba. Email: alejandro(A)ceniai.inf.cu |
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Boatema Boateng
is an Associate Professor in
the Department of Communication, University of California San Diego.
Her
research is on the intellectual property protection of traditional
knowledge in
relation to questions of gender, cultural nationalism, legal
subjectivity and
the postcolonial state. She theorizes intellectual property law as a
“technology of modernity” that does not only
adjudicate claims over knowledge and cultural production, but also
organizes
the latter in hierarchies that correspond to wider structures and
relations of
power. Her forthcoming book is The Copyright Thing Doesn’t
Work Here: Cloth, Culture,
Power and Intellectual Property Law in Ghana.”
Email: bboateng(A)ucsd.edu |
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Carolina d’Avila
has a BA in Marketing from
the University of São Paulo, but has been working with
English teaching,
translation and interpretation for over 15 years now. She holds several
International Certificates of Proficiency in English and in teaching,
such as
the CPE and the CELTA, both issued by Cambridge ESOL, and a Conference
Interpreting Certificate issued by the Catholic University of
São Paulo. Her
clients include Rede Record Television, PUC-SP, HBO, The History
Channel, TAM
Airlines, Rotary Club International and SESC, among others. Email: davilacarolina(A)terra.com.br
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Cecilia Mattos is
a translator
and interpreter in Portuguese, English and Spanish with experience
interpreting
in the USA, Argentina, Italy and UK. She graduated from USP, has a
Certificate
of Proficiency in English from Cambridge University (CPE) and a Masters
in
Conference Interpreting and Translation Studies from the University of
Leeds,
UK. Email: cecilia(A)am3artes.com.br (interpreter) |
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Colin Darch was
one of the founder members of the Copy South Research Network. He
was educated at the University of Oxford, holds a postgraduate library
qualification, and has a doctorate in social and economic analysis from
the
University of Bradford in the United Kingdom. From the early 1970s
onwards, he has
worked in universities and research centres in Ethiopia, Tanzania,
Mozambique,
Zimbabwe and Brazil as a librarian and academic, as well as pursuing a
parallel
career as an occasional radio and print journalist. Since 1992, he has
lived
and worked in Cape Town, South Africa, successively at the University
of the
Western Cape, the Adamastor Trust, and the University of Cape Town,
where he is
presently a Senior Information Specialist in the African Studies
Library. Apart
from copyright and intellectual property issues, his current research
interests
include access to information (the citizens' right to demand
information from
the state). With Peter G. Underwood, Darch is the author of Freedom
of
Information and the Developing World: the Citizen, the State and Models
of
Openness (Oxford: Chandos, 2010). He has published over 40
articles in
English and Portuguese on topics of African history and bibliography.
His
website is at http://www.colindarch.info
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Debora Halbert
is an Associate Professor of
Political Science at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa. She is the author of Intellectual Property in the Information Age: The Politics of Expanding
Ownership Rights and Resisting
Intellectual Property,
along with numerous articles on issues related to intellectual property. She has been involved with
CopySouth since
its inception and is a co-editor of the CopySouth
Dossier. Email: halbert(A)hawaii.edu |
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Denis
Borges
Barbosa é
advogado no Rio de Janeiro, é autor ou co-autor de 36 livros
e
mais de duas centenas de artigos publicados no Brasil e no exterior,
concentrando a maioria de sua produção
doutrinária, desde a década de 1970, no campo da
propriedae industrial. Bacharel e Doutor em Direito Internacional e da
Integração Econômica pela Universidade
do Estado do
Rio de Janeiro, é mestre pela Columbia Law School, de Nova
York,
e também mestre em direito empresarial pela Universidade
Gama
Filho. Sua atividade docente inclui os cursos de pós
graduação lato sensu e stricto sensu da
Pontifícia
Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ, INPI,
Fundação Getulio Vargas do Rio e de
São Paulo,
Universidade Candido Mendes, UNICURITIBA e do Centro de
Extensão
Universitária de São Paulo. É
coordenador
acadêmico do Instituto Brasileiro da Propriedade Intelectual
e
pesquisador do Núcleo de Estudos em Propriedade Intelectual
da
UERJ, da Universidade Federal de Viçosa e da Universidade
Federal de Sergipe. Ex-Procurador Geral do INPI, é
Procurador do
Município do Rio de Janeiro, aposentado, tem atuado como
consultor do Governo Federal e de órgãos
internacionais,
e foi assessor e delegado em conferências
diplomáticas em
matéria de tecnologia e propriedade intelectual. Email:
denis(A)nbb.com.br
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Eloísa
Príncipe de Oliveira é doutora em
Ciência da Informação pela Escola de
Comunicação da Universidade Federal do Rio de
Janeiro (2005). É Tecnologista
Senior do Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em
Ciência e Tecnologia (IBICT),
desde 1979, onde desenvolve atividades técnicas, gerenciais
e acadêmicas.
Possui longa experiência em informação
científica e, em particular, em
comunicação científica,
periódicos científicos, bases de dados,
tecnologias da
informação e da comunicação
(TICs). É membro da ABEC Associação
Brasileira de
Editores Científicos. Email: principe(A)ibict.br (Organizing Committee member) |
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Fatima Lasay is
an artist, activist and
scholar working on issues related to culture and the arts in the
Philippines.
Her current work is on creativity outside the IP framework. Email: fats(A)korakora.org. |
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Henry Stobart
is Senior Lecturer in the
Music Department of Royal Holloway, University of London. He has
researched
music among indigenous people in the Bolivian Andes since the 1980s,
his most
recent work focusing on indigenous music video (VCD) production, music
‘piracy’, and cultural politics. Among his many
publications are the book Music and the Poetics of
Production in
the Bolivian Andes (Ashgate 2006) and the edited volume The
New (Ethno)musicologies, (Scarecrow,
2008). Henry has also toured and recorded widely as a professional
performer
with the Early Music ensemble SIRINU. Email:
h.Stobart(A)rhul.ac.uk.
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Jhessica Reia
is studying Management Public Policy at the University of
São Paulo and
is a researcher for the Research Group on Public Policies for Access to
Information (GPOPAI), which develops work in the field of free culture
and copyright. She is also an activist with the Pirate Party of Brazil
and a founder of the Pirate Party International. She is working on
formalizing the Brazilian pirate party. She focuses on
projects
related to access to knowledge and culture as well as resistance
movements to the current system of copyright. Email: jhereia(A)gmail.com |
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Juan Carlos
Cordero was
born in Ancoraimes, La Paz, Bolivia and has been playing music his
entire
life. He has toured
internationally,
playing “Andean Music,” having traveled to almost
all the world’s
continents. He
studied violin at the
Universidad Nacional de Bolivia and despite being self-taught on the
guitar was
awarded a place in the Second Classical Guitar National Meeting in
Tarija,
Bolivia. He has worked for the Department of Public Execution in the
Bolivian
Collective Management Societies (ASA, SOBODAYCOM) on the issue of
developing a
general understanding of the impact of intellectual property in Bolivia. He was a 2001 recipient of
a scholarship to
participate in the 11th course on the theory and
practice of
collective management of copyright in Montevideo, Uruguay, an event
sponsored
by CISAC. He has
also worked on
curriculum development for Music Education for the Ministry of
Education in
Bolivia. He is currently an independent music producer with his label
Sikus
Records and remains a professional musician and music teacher. He works for the Bolivian
Society of
Composers and is organizing an independent group to study issues of IP. He has been involved with
CopySouth since
2008. Email: sikus_bolivia(A)yahoo.com.
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Juarez
Calil
is Nutritionist (UNIVALI) and Master in Nutrition (UFSC). He is a
professor tutor of graduate in Management of Food Safety at SENAC/BA
and a member of the Center for Research in Nutrition in the Production
of Meals (NUPPRE/UFSC). Works with consulting in the food sector with a
portfolio of more than eighty clients, range from street food to the
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with its
focus on restaurants, bakeries and hotels. He is also a multiplier of
education to the conscious consumption of the National Institute of
Metrology, Standardization and Industrial Quality (INMETRO). Email:
Juarez.calil(A)gmail.com
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Kavita Philip
is Director of the Critical
Theory Institute, UC Irvine. She is author of Civilizing
Natures (2003
and 2004), and co-editor of the volumes Constructing Human
Rights in the Age
of Globalization (with Monshipouri, Englehart, and Nathan,
2003), Multiple
Contentions (with Skotnes, 2003), Homeland
Securities (with Reilly
and Serlin, 2005), and Tactical Biopolitics (with
da Costa, 2008). Her
research interests are in transnational histories of science and
technology;
feminist technocultures; gender, race, globalization and
postcolonialism;
environmental history; and new media theory. Her work in progress
includes a
monograph entitled Proper Knowledge, and a
co-authored book with Terry
Harpold entitled Going Native: Cyberculture and
Postcolonialism. Email: kphilip(A)uci.edu. |
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Lillian Alvarez is
a poet, author, and activist who has
spent the past 15 years working on issues related to law &
culture,
specifically issues of copyright and commerce. Located in Cuba, she is
the
organizer for the internet site, "In defense of the knowledge and the
culture for all" (www.porlacultura.org
). She has written numerous articles and her book Derecho
de ¿autor? El debate de hoy, published in Cuba,
won the
Critics prize in the Social Sciences.
She participated in the second CopySouth Workshop in
Kerala. Email: porlacultura(A)icaic.cu |
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Marcos Dantas is
a professor in the
Graduate Program of the School of Communication at UFRJ. He teaches and
researches
on topics related to Communication Systems and New Technologies, the
Political
Economy of Communication, and Public Policies in Communication and
Information.
He has a Ph.D. in Production Engineering from COPPE-UFRJ and has held
the
offices of Secretary of Distance Education MEC (2004-2005), Secretary
of
Planning and Budget Ministry of Communications (2003), and other public
positions. He is the author of The logic
of capital-information (Ed. Counterpoint, 2002, 2nd ed.) and
many other
articles on the Political Economy of Information and Communication as
well as
on the recent evolution in markets, companies, institutions and laws in
the
field of Communications. Email: prof.marcosdantas(A)gmail.com |
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Mat Callahan is
a musician and author
from San Francisco who currently resides in Bern, Switzerland. His
musical work
includes award-winning albums and collaborations such as founding the
legendary
artists’ collective Komotion International.
He is the author of numerous books and articles
including The Trouble
With Music (AK Press 2006). This book led to a friendship and
collaboration
with Pete Seeger. Mat presented Seeger's proposal for Public Domain
reform at a
WIPO conference in Geneva in 2007.
His
latest musical recording, a duet with Yvonne Moore, is Burn
the Boogeyman
(Broken Arrow Records 2009). For more information: www.matcallahan.com. Email:
matcallahan(A)gmail.com |
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Nanci Oddone is
an Associate Professor of Library, Documentation and Information
Science at the
Federal University of Bahia (UFBA, Brazil). She is part of the National
Council
for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq, Brazil)
grant-holder
researchers’ staff, with a research project on e-books and
their social impact.
During the 2008-2009 academic year she was Visiting Professor at Kent
Law
School, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom, where she
performed
interdisciplinary studies on the international regime of copyright and
its
economic, political and ideological implications. She works as a
tenured
Professor in UFBA’s Graduate Program in Information Science.
At the
undergraduate level, she gives a course on the History
of Books and Libraries and a course on Publishing
for the Bachelor’s degree in Librarianship. In 2007 she
joined the CopySouth Research Group and since 2008 she is a member of
its
Coordinating Committee. She chairs the Infoscience Research Group,
directing
research on historical, epistemological and political aspects of
scientific
information and the technologies that allow access and use of digital
information. Her CV can be found at: http://lattes.cnpq.br/2233874942329402.
Email: neoddone [at] uol [dot] com [dot] br.
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Pablo Ortellado
is a Public Policy professor
at the University of São Paulo where he coordinates the
Research Group on
Public Policies for Access to Information [Grupo de Pesquisa em
Políticas
Públicas para o Acesso à
Informação] (Gpopai). Contact: www.gpopai.usp.br |
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Pedro Paranaguá is a Doctoral
candidate at the Duke University. He holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.)
degree in
Intellectual Property from the University of London, Queen Mary where
his
dissertation was on “The Development Agenda for WIPO: another
stillbirth? A
battle between access to knowledge and enclosure”, available
at SSRN. Mr.
Paranaguá is a professor of Law at
Fundação Getulio Vargas School of Law in Rio
de Janeiro (FGV-Rio). He coordinated the distance learning law courses
at
FGV-Online (2005-2009). Mr. Paranaguá has also commissioned
studies to the
Brazilian Ministry of Culture and is visiting professor at Rio de
Janeiro
Federal University (UFRJ); State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ);
Fundação
Armando Álvares Penteado (FAAP); Sao Paulo Bar
Association´s Superior School of
Advocacy (ESA-OAB/SP), and at the Brazilian Patent and Trademark
Office's
Master degree programme. He has also given capacity building to the Rio
de
Janeiro Judges Association, and to the Rio Grande do Norte Judges
Association.
In addition to his teaching responsibilities, he coordinated
FGV’s Access to
Knowledge (A2K) Programme, and represented FGV-Rio at the World
Intellectual
Property Organization (2005-2009). Prior to joining academia, Mr.
Paranaguá led
a study group at a Brazilian NGO, focusing on patents and access to
medicines
and worked closely with Médecins Sans Frontières
(MSF), and with the Brazilian
Ministry of Health. Mr. Paranaguá is research assistant at
the Geneva-based
IQsensato, and he has co-authored a book (with Sérgio
Branco) on Copyrights,
and another one (with Renata Reis) on Patents, both in Portuguese, and
under a
CC license. Email: pedro.paranagua(A)gmail.com
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Renato
Murasaki é Bacharel em Ciência da
Computação pela PUC-SP e possui MBA em
E-Commerce pela ESPM e em Gestão de Projetos pela FGV-SP.
Atua como Gerente de
Metodologias e Tecnologias de Informação na
BIREME/OPAS/OMS desde janeiro de
2009, tendo exercido entre 2000 e 2008 as funções
de analista de sistemas,
supervisor de desenvolvimento de sistemas e coordenador de projetos nos
âmbitos
nacional e internacional. Atuou como analista de suporte
técnico na Oracle do
Brasil, entre 1999 e 2000. Possui experiência em
análise e desenvolvimento de
sistemas, na coordenação de projetos focados no
desenvolvimento de aplicações
web e no suporte técnico à
implantação do ERP Oracle Applications. Email:
renato.murasaki(A)bireme.org |
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Roberto Verzola
of the Philippines has a
background in engineering. He has spent much of his professional life
working
with computers, both at the hardware, software and networking level. He
has
also been a social activist most of his adult life and often helps NGOs
as a
technical resource person. He has focused on environmental issues since
1996
and worked as a volunteer for farmers' groups since 2002, a role which
he
continues to play today. His current research interest is in developing
a
framework of analysis of the information, agriculture and natural
resources
sectors under the concept of abundance. Email: |
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Sara Torres is
a librarian at
the Federal University of Bahia and a specialist in event planning. Sh is currently working as
a librarian indexing
the Virtual Health Library in Psychology (BVS-Psi) and the Library of
the Latin
American Union of Psychology Entities (VHL-ULAPSI). Email:
saratorres4(A)gmail.com (Organizing Committee member) |
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Sarita Albagli
is a Senior Researcher at the Brazilian Institute
for Information in Science and Technology (IBICT) and Senior Lecturer
at the
Post-Graduate Programme in Information Science (IBICT and Federal
University of
Rio de Janeiro). Coordinator
of the
Interdisciplinary Laboratory on Information and Knowledge Studies
(Liinc). Editor of Liinc
em Revista. Bachelor
in Social
Sciences and PhD in Geography (UFRJ).
Among other publications, she is the author of the
book “Information
and Development: knowledge,
innovation and social appropriation”, co-edited with Maria
Lucia Maciel,
published by Unesco and IBICT. She is also the forthcoming the book
“Information,
Power, and Politics: institutional and technological
mediations”, co-edited
with Maria Lucia Maciel, to be published by Lexington. Email: sarita.albagli(A)gmail.com. |
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Tulio Vianna is
a Professor of Criminal Law on the
Faculty of Law at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He holds a Doctor of Laws
of the State from
the Federal University of Parana (2006) and a Masters in Criminal
Science from
the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2001), where he also graduated
(1999). He is the
author of Transparency public, private
opacity (Revan,
2007) and Foundations of Computer Science
Criminal Law (Forensic, 2003) as well as numerous articles
published in
legal journals in Brazil and overseas.
He has participated as a speaker at dozens of
conferences and national
seminars on topics of Penal Law, Computer Law and Human
Rights. Email: prof(A)tuliovianna.org |
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Yorgos Axarlis
was
born in Greece, where he studied Tourism. He obtained a
Master’s in Spain, in
Tourism Administration and later got a second Master’s in
Interpreting and
Translation Studies in England. He is currently working as a tourist
guide and
an interpreter in Latin America and in his free time he travels
incessantly,
having visited more than 70 countries, including North Korea, Ethiopia,
Venezuela and Iran, among others. Yorgos participated as an interpreter
in the Copysouth
Conference in India. He’s been calling Cuba home for more
than a decade. Email axarlis(A)hotmail.com (interpreter) |
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Yvonne Moore
Since she first took the
stage more than 25 years ago, Yvonne has been hailed as the most
powerful soul
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We are told that we live in the 'digital revolution' era and that we can communicate across the globe as we never could before. In fact, restrictive copyright laws still act as a serious barrier to sharing and learning from each other. This is particularly true in countries of the South where three quarters of the population live.
To read more, get a copy of the 208-page Copy/South Dossier produced in May 2006 by the Copy South Research Group after more than 18 months of research. Available at no charge, this unique dossier contains more than 50 articles examining many dimensions of the issue across the global South, such as access, culture, economics, libraries, education, software, the Internet, the public domain, and resistance. It is available at no charge.
You can get the dossier in two ways: either download it or send us an e-mail (contact@copysouth.org) and we will send you a copy in the post.
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Enviado por admin el Jue, 10/22/2009 - 10:38.
An alternative primer on
national and international copyright law
in the global South:
eighteen questions and answers
Alan Story*
September 2009
José Guadalupe Posada
DOWNLOAD:
Primer- Text only (596 kb)
Primer - Cover and text (3.29mb)
ABSTRACT: What are the basic nuts and bolts (and traps and dead ends) of copyright law? Who owns copyright (hint: it is usually not the author)? What rights do users have? Do international copyright conventions work in the interest of the peoples of the world, and, if not, why not? These are a few of the questions that are taken up and answered in “An alternative primer on national and international copyright law in the global South: eighteen questions and answers” published by the CopySouth Research Group. The intended audience: librarians, musicians, downloaders and book readers, information activists, students, and others who want to know how the copyright system actually works in practice in your country of Latin America, Africa, and Asia. In 68 pages of straightforward and non-legalistic writing, this primer tries to unpack and explain a number of both simple and complicated concepts. You will NOT find it on the list of texts recommended by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)…. but your comments via this website are welcome (see comment form below).
*Alan Story teaches intellectual property law at Kent Law School in the United Kingdom.
Enviado por admin el Jue, 10/01/2009 - 22:38.
Theory on Demand #4
Imagine there is no copyright and no cultural conglomerates too...
Better for artists, diversity and the economy
Authors: Joost Smiers and Marieke van Schijndel
Translation from Dutch: Rosalind Buck, doe-eye@wanadoo.fr
Design: Katja van Stiphout
DTP: Margreet Riphagen Printer: ‘Print on Demand’
Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2009
If we recognise that copyright is unfeasible, and unjustifiable, what should our response be? Immediately comes to mind that copyright provides an investment protection to blockbusters, best sellers and stars, and that it distorts cultural markets and pushes a wide variety of cultural expressions out of sight. At the same time, cultural conglomerates controlling copyright dominate cultural markets by owning the means of production, distribution, marketing and reception of cultural expressions. From the perspective of democracy and fair competition this type of market control is not to be tolerated.
Thus, let us imagine what abolishing copyright would accomplish, while not hesitate cutting cultural conglomerates into many pieces. The result is a level playing field in which many, and many more artists can make a decent living. And, even more importantly: a restoration of our public domain of creativity and knowledge.
Prof. dr Joost Smiers is a political scientist and Research Fellow at the Research Group Arts & Economics, Utrecht School of the Arts, the Netherlands. His Arts Under Pressure. Promoting Cultural Diversity in the Age of Globalization has been translated into ten languages. He lives in Amsterdam. joost.smiers@planet.nl
Marieke van Schijndel is a cultural scientist and MBA graduate. She works in the cultural field in the Netherlands. She lives in Utrecht.
Printed on Demand
ISBN: 978-90-78146-09-4
DOWNLOAD Zipped PDF 460kb Imagine there is no copyright and no cultural conglomerates too...
Enviado por admin el Sáb, 09/26/2009 - 01:14.
Abstract: Developing countries need to rethink their copyright policy in light of the abundant information flows across the world. A nation’s copyright policy is a pivotal source determining the forms of control that can be exercised over access to published information. The thrust for a global regime of trade related intellectual property rights (TRIPS), which includes copyright, was initiated by the United States of America in the eighth Uruguay round of GATT talks due to intense lobbying from its domestic knowledge based industries and with unequivocal support from Europe and Japan. The inclusion of TRIPS within the subsequent WTO framework has gone a long way in aligning and harmonizing intellectual property of most WTO member states with the US viewpoint. New digital technology, enabled by the Internet, is imposing a fresh challenge to conventional copyright policy. Large copyright owning organizations argue that digital media allows for an increasing possibility for piracy. Providing higher protection standards is therefore necessary. This argument led the US lawmakers into signing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. Though a US law it has trans-national implications. A crucial dimension to the DMCA Act, beyond the US domestic horizon, is to explore how such a new copyright act will have impact on other countries, particularly developing ones. Protecting access to digital information at one end of the world through new copyright acts will have crucial consequence for the rest of the world.
This article was published in Review of Business Research, Vol. III, No. 1, 2004
Dr. Shishir Kumar Jha (skjha@iitb.ac.in) earned his Ph.D at Syracuse University in 1998. Currently he is an Associate Professor at the Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India.
DOWNLOAD Copyright and Copyduties - Importance of the Public Domain for Developing Countries (PDF, 85kb)
Enviado por admin el Vie, 09/18/2009 - 01:24.
"Derecho de ¿autor? El debate de hoy"
LILLIAN ÁLVAREZ NAVARRETE: Licenciada en Derecho en la Universidad de La Habana. Ha trabajado como asesora en el Ministerio de Cultura, en el Centro Nacional de Derecho de Autor y como profesora en el Centro de Superación para la Cultura. Estudiosa de los temas de Derecho de la Cultura, tiene varios artículos publicados en diversas revistas y sitios en Internet. Como poetisa, además, publicó Ni el aire ni el espejo (Extramuros, 2002). Trabaja desde Cuba en la organización de la Red “En defensa del conocimiento y la cultura para todos”.
Edición y corrección: Royma Cañas
Diseño interior: Pilar Sa Leal
Diseño de cubierta: Yadyra Rodríguez Gómez
Composición: Enrique de Horta Aymerich
INSTITUTO CUBANO DEL LIBRO
EDITORIAL DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES
Calle 14 no. 4104, Playa, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba
e-mail: editorialmil@cubarte.cult.cu
Enviado por admin el Mar, 09/15/2009 - 01:19.
Abstract: Technology and law are increasingly used to undermine processes of abundance intrinsic to nature, agriculture and the information sector. A number of examples are reviewed here; the relationship between such counter-productive use of technology and law and corporate profit-seeking is revealed; the phenomenon of abundance is linked with the related concepts of scarcity and commons, and an approach is proposed that harnesses abundance for the human good.
Roberto Verzola is a convenor and member of the Philippine Greens. He is active in information, environmental and agriculture issues. He may be reached at rverzola@gn.apc.org.
Enviado por admin el Vie, 09/11/2009 - 01:40.
Copyright and Non-western Countries
Gradually we are starting to understand that the philosophy behind our present copyright system is less self-evident than we usually accept. We observe that copyright is mostly not in favour of artists, the public domain and Third World countries. I have proposed elsewhere that we cannot continue to support a system that favours huge cultural industries more than the public interest.1 Furthermore copyright has an octopus-like character. It includes all expressions that contain even a vague reference to a specific work, and its reach is nearly endless.
Copyright filters artistic communication. The 'owners' of artistic expressions decide who may use, in what way, and for what price those elementary sources of our cultures expressed in theatre, dance, music, films, works of visual art and design, and literature. We should keep in mind that those 'owners' - cultural conglomerates that also control the production, distribution and promotion of artistic goods and values - are privatising and appropriating most of our cultural expressions. Free cultural communication is the victim. It is also strange that one person may privately 'own', for instance, a melody, with the consequence that others may sing or change it only in accordance with the conditions of the 'owner'. This is contrary to what has happened in all cultures everywhere in the world and dates back only to the end of nineteenth century with the introduction of the system of copyright in the Western world and the privatisation of knowledge and creativity.
Enviado por admin el Mié, 09/09/2009 - 02:11.
Abstract: This 2003 article challenges some of the conventional wisdom in the field of international copyright law and attempts to show why this system predominantly works for the benefit of wealthy media corporations (and other copyright owners) in rich industrial countries and NOT in interests of people living in the global South. It explains that the concept of “national treatment” promotes, rather than reduces, discrimination and why the metaphor of “balance” misleads us about the very nature of this system. In fact, the 1886 Berne Convention is a colonial relic and should be repealed. “Burn Berne” was published in Volume 40, Issue 3 of the Houston Law Review (in the United States) in 2003.
Alan Story is a senior lecturer in intellectual property law at Kent Law School, United Kingdom, and a long-time Copysouther. He can be contacted at: a.c.story@kent.ac.uk
DOWNLOAD "Burn Berne" (PDF, 240 kilobytes)
Enviado por admin el Lun, 09/07/2009 - 18:10.
Abstract: WIPO claims that by providing the framework for strong intellectual property rights, it can facilitate economic development, even in the least developed countries. Since its inception as an organization, WIPO has aligned itself with the UN goals of development. However, "development" for WIPO takes the form of institution building to protect intellectual property. WIPO only assesses itself based upon how often it communicates its message of strong intellectual property rights, not ever on if the institutions and legal framework it introduces around the world actually facilitate development. It is time to make that assessment – has the work done by WIPO in the past 37 years contributed meaningfully to economic development in the least developed countries of the world?
This paper introduces a WIPO counterfactual – the world without WIPO. The question before us is: what if WIPO did not exist; what if WIPO had not, for the past almost 40 years been working towards its goals regarding IPRs; finally, what might be the impact on development for the least developed countries in the world?
In order to examine the impact of WIPO on development, I’d take two countries as case studies – Chad and Mali – in order to assess the methods through which WIPO’s activities have facilitated development in these countries. Ultimately, the case studies suggest that while WIPO has contributed to institution building, economic, social, cultural or political development has not been substantially enhanced by WIPO’s existence. Despite decades of meetings and educational activities, not only do IPRs remain relatively unprotected, but strengthening their protection has not sparked development; at least not in the countries that could use it the most.
Debora Halbert (halbert@hawaii.edu) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
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