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  • From: "Damian Tambini" <damian.tambini AT socio-legal-studies.oxford.ac.uk>
  • To: "'Rufus Taylor'" <rufus.taylor AT hertford.oxford.ac.uk>, "'Louise'" <louise.scott AT csls.ox.ac.uk>
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  • Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:41:21 +0100


One-Day Conference



Global Intellectual Property from a Brazilian perspective



Friday 4 November 2005



To be held at the Centre for Brazilian Studies, 92 Woodstock Rd, Oxford



There is no conference fee but advanced registration is required. Please
register with your name and affiliation to enquiries AT brazil.ox.ac.uk or on
01865 284460



Coordinators: Dr Ronaldo Lemos, Director, Centre for Technology and Society,
Fundação Getúlio Vargas Law School, Rio de Janeiro, Project Lead, Creative
Commons Brazil, and Ministry of Culture Visiting Fellow, Centre for
Brazilian Studies

Dr Christian Ahlert, Senior Research Associate, Michael Young Foundation.





Brazil is at the forefront of a new movement challenging established
Intellectual Property regimes in a variety of ways. In the past it has
negotiated international conventions on drug patents to make HIV/AIDS
medication available at cheaper prices. More recently, it has been promoting
Open Source software to decrease dependency on proprietary software.



Given the tradition of a vibrant popular culture, especially music, Brazil
is also embracing Creative Commons, an alternative copyright framework,
which encourages the sharing and distribution of cultural works. In this
context it is building the "Canto Livre" project; an archive and
collaborative production platform on the Internet to produce and make music
available to the world. Here again Brazil challenges established market
forces. Music distribution, like the pharmaceutical sector or the computer
and software market, is dominated by US and European companies.



In addition, Brazil and Argentina were the proponents of a new agenda for
the World Intellectual Property Organization, seeking to promote a more
balanced international regime on Intellectual Property vis a vis the pursuit
of development.



The aim of this conference is twofold: (a) to examine how Brazil's current
cultural policies, which have their anthropological roots in "antropofagia"
of the 1920s and "tropicalismo" of the 1960s, aim at adapting Intellectual
Property law to better participate in global culture, and (b) to examine the
role played by Intellectual Property in a technologically globalised world
in order to promote access to knowledge and culture.



The Oxford Centre for Brazilian Studies provides an excellent environment
for exploring new and exciting cultural initiatives in Brazil which are at
the intersection of law, culture and technology.




Programme






10:00 - 10:15 Opening





Professor Leslie Bethell, Director, Centre for Brazilian Studies


Dr Ronaldo Lemos


Dr Christian Ahlert




10:15 - 11:15 Session I: 'The Brazilian government's policy on intellectual
property'



Chair: Professor Leslie Bethell



Dr Barbara Rosenberg, Director, Secretary of Economic Defence, Ministry of
Justice, Brasilia


Intellectual property rights in developing countries: a Brazilian
perspective






11:15 - 11:45 Coffee





11:45 - 12:45 Session II: 'Internet architecture and access to
information'



Chair: Professor Leslie Bethell



Professor Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Internet Governance and
Regulation, Oxford Internet Institute, and Berkman Visiting Professor,
Harvard University


The role of the intermediaries in Intellectual Property enforcement






12:45 - 14:00 Lunch





14:00 - 15:45



Session III: 'Society and open content'



Chair: Dr Barbara Rosenberg




Dr Christian Ahlert


The Open Business Project and its importance for development and access to
knowledge




Dr Ronaldo Lemos


Creative commons and social content networks in developing countries: the
case of Brazil



Commentator: Vera Franz, Program Manager, Open Society Institute





15:45 - 16:15 Tea





16:15 - 18.00 Session IV: 'New hopes for and threats to access to knowledge'




Chair: Dr Ronaldo Lemos




Claudio Prado, Director, Digital Culture Policies, Ministry of Culture,
Brasilia


Brazil: Leapfrogging from the 19th century directly to the 21st century





Cory Doctorow, European Affairs Coordinator, Electronic Frontier Foundation,
London


The Broadcast Flag: Hollywood wants a set-top-cop in your sitting room




18.00 Close







92 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 7ND

Tel: 44 (0) 1865 284460

Fax: 44 (0) 1865 284461

Email: enquiries AT brazil.ox.ac.uk

Web site: www.brazil.ox.ac.uk <http://www.brazil.ox.ac.uk/>

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