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  • From: Alex Gakuru <gakuru AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: CC Africa mailing list <ccafrica AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [ccAfrica] 2013 Global IP Congress Declaration
  • Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 09:05:50 +0300



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From: Timothy Vollmer <tvol AT creativecommons.org>
Date: Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 12:05 AM
Subject: [cc-affiliates] 2013 Global IP Congress Declaration



Hi all:

Creative Commons will sign onto the Global Congress Declaration on Fundamental Public Interest Principles for International Intellectual Property Negotiations.

The background of the statement is here:

The statement text is here: 

Here's a short summary of some of the main points of the statement. Countries should support a positive agenda to reform user rights by: 
  • increasing transparency and participation in negotiating process for treaties and agreements that effect the public;
  • ensuring that IP rights are implemented in ways that supports social and economic welfare;
  • ensuring that countries have flexibility in defining limitations and exceptions to copyright;
  • ensuring that countries have flexibility in IP to protect public health and support access to medicines; 
  • ensuring that countries may implement exhaustion (first sale principles) for IP;
  • ensuring that enforcement and penalties for IP are proportional to infringement;
  • ensuring that countries be able to set enforcement priorities that benefit the public good; 
  • ensuring that countries should be able to prohibit ISPs from monitoring communications of users;
  • in general ensuring that IP agreements are in line with international and human rights laws.


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