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Dear All Tripartites Members

I would like to share with you about recent activities that I am engaged with Consumers International and to share with you on a access to knowledge approach or a more balance approach to the copyright protection in the digital environment in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong Consumer Council is one of the Member of a global organization of Consumers International (CI).  

Consumer international is a global confederation of national consumer groups and agencies, CI supports and represents over 220 member organisations in 115 countries around the world.
About two-thirds of member organisations are in developing countries, the other third in industrialized countries. One of the major campaign program in last two years is about the access to knowledge,
the balance approach on copy-right protection. Importantly the CI is more concern about the right of the consumers to access to knowledge and the policy to have creative commons.

Recently the organization has issued its work on the research of global copyright protection. It is found that copyright rules no longer do what they are supposed to do.

A short firm When Copyright Goes Bad introducing the renegotiation of copyright and is for anyone interested in how copyright is affecting consumers.

This is a film about how copyright has become one of the most important consumer issues of the digital age. Why corporate lobbying risks criminalising the actions of hundreds of thousands of people. And what the future holds for the fight for fairer copyright laws.

It features other key players in the copyright debate including Fred Von Lohmann - Electronic Frontier Foundation, Michael Geist - University of Ottawa Law School, Jim Killock - Open Rights Group, and Hank Shocklee - co-founder of Public Enemy.

Watch the film... You can watch, copy and adapt When Copyright Goes Bad for free, as long as content is attributed and the same Creative Commons licence is used. Visit http://www.youtube.com/consumersintl for the film in English, French and Spanish.

If those who are interested to know more about our A2K project, we can share with you all we have done so far. Thank you for your attention.

Victor HUNG

Hong Kong Consumer Council

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