Sisule Musungu – The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will, on 14 November 2011, be launching a new annual report - The World Intellectual Property Report. The 2011 edition will focus on the “Changing Face of Innovation” and will be describing key rends in the innovation landscape, including how the innovation process has become more open, collaborative and international.
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WIPO to Launch New Annual Report
Sunday, November 13th, 2011Intellectual Property Dynamics in Africa’s Informal Economies
Friday, November 26th, 2010Dick Kawooya and Sisule Musungu – Recommendation 34 of the WIPO Development Agenda calls upon WIPO to “conduct a study on contraints to intellectual property prtotection in the informal economy, including the tangible costs and benefits of intellectual property protection in particular in relation to generation of employment”. This Recommendation was formulated based on an original proposal by the African Group at WIPO. Consequently, while the Recommendation is relevant to all developing countries, it is of particular interest to Africa. The WIPO Secretariat has now prepared a Discussion Paper as a basis for the Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) to decide on the way forward in implementing the Recommendation. In essence, however, the Discussion Paper mainly seeks to frame the questions that ought to be asked as opposed to providing substantive suggestions.
Creative Commons in the Arab World, Views From the Global South
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010Hala Essalmawi[1] – Creative Commons initiative, born in the “North”, does it have a chance in the Arab world? Does the Arabs are interested and aware of Copyright laws? Are they concerned about Access to Knowledge issues? Can Creative Commons introduce a new tool to access and disseminate knowledge in the Arab countries?
Three books on IP launched in Brazil
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Pedro Paranagua – Brazil’s Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), a higher education institution comprised of four Schools (Economic, Business, Law, and Social Science), placed amongst the world’s top-5 “policy-maker think-tank” according to the US magazine Foreign Policy has launched three new books (in Brazilian Portuguese) on intellectual property -related fields.
The Public Domain Manifesto
Monday, February 8th, 2010Pedro Paranagua – The Public Domain Manifesto, which was produced within the context of COMMUNIA, the European Thematic Network on the digital public domain, has recently been launched. The Manifesto is a timely reminder that the public domain “is the wealth of information that is free from the barriers to access or reuse usually associated with copyright protection, either because it is free from any copyright protection or because the right holders have decided to remove these barriers.”
