Ideas in Development

The Global IP Upward Ratchet, Anti-Counterfeiting and Piracy Enforcement Efforts: The State of Play

IQsensato Occasional Papers No. 1
By Susan Sell, George Washington University

In this seminal paper, Prof. Sell reviews the current global efforts to ratchet up IP enforcement. She provides incisive analysis of the key government and industry players behind these efforts, their motivations, and strategies, national, regionally and internationally, as well as the state of discussions and trends in key international institutions and forums. The full text of the paper is available here.

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IQsensato to Co-Host the Third Annual Access to Knowledge Conference

IQsensato is to co-host the Third Annual Access to Knowledge Conference which will be held in Geneva from Monday, 8 September 2008 to Wednesday, 10 September 2008. The Conference, expected to be the largest gathering of access to knowledge (A2K) advocates, experts, practitioners and observers, is being jointly organised with the Information Society Project at Yale Law School (Yale ISP); Electronic Information for Libraries (elFL.Net); Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF); Centre for Technology and Society at the Fundacao Getulio Vargas School of Law (FGV) – Rio; International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development(ICTSD); International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA); Knowledge Ecology International (KEI); Library Copyright Alliance (LCA); UNU-MERIT; and 3D –Trade-Human Rights and Equitable Economy.

Detailed information about the conference can be found on our events page.

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