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["Andres Guadamuz" <a.guadamuz AT ed.ac.uk>]

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This may be of interest:

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The Intellectual Property Charter: 
Special Debate - Time for action!

RSA, 8 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6EZ
Thursday 14 July at 6pm

The media are full of stories of crises in copyright and patents, from
teenagers being fined £3000 for downloading music that they believed to be
legal to millions of people suffering from AIDS because they can't afford
patented drugs.

Should ideas be public or private? Should they be free to use or restricted?
What is the future for copyright and how will this affect the creative
industries, science and technology?

The RSA’s Intellectual Property Charter aims to promote a new way of
ensuring the free circulation of ideas and knowledge for the benefit of
society. It will provide a set of principles for a fair, transparent and
user-friendly system in a sustainable creative economy.

Following the near completion of the Charter, there will be a special debate
on 14 July at the RSA in London with speakers including Ron Marchant, Chief
Executive, Patent Office and John Naughton, professor of the public
understanding of technology and columnist at The Observer. The debate will
be moderated by John Howkins, Project Director, RSA Charter on Intellectual
Property.

This is a rare opportunity to question Ron Marchant who, as chief executive
of the Patent Office, is responsible for shaping Britain¹s copyright and
patent laws. And John Naughton, as author of A Brief History of the Future:
Origins of the Internet, is well qualified to challenge existing copyright
principles.

To reserve your free place at the debate: 
email lectures AT rsa.org.uk or 
telephone 020 7451 6868

www.theRSA.org/events
 www.ipcharter.org


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Andres Guadamuz
AHRC Research Centre for Studies in
Intellectual Property and Technology Law
Old College, South Bridge
Edinburgh EH8 9YL 

Tel: 44 (0)131 6509699
Fax: 44 (0)131 6506317
a.guadamuz AT ed.ac.uk
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