[WSIS CS-Plenary] Invitation to WSIS Panel on WIPO and IPRs: 16 Nov at Kram (15:00-17:00)

[Robin Gross]

IP JUSTICE PRESENTS:

Please join us at a parallel event at the World Summit on the 
Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis

"THE ROLE OF WIPO AND NGO'S TO BALANCE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS"

16 November 2005, Wednesday (15:00 - 17:00)
in Salle GOULETTE of Kram Exhibition Center at WSIS in Tunis

Moderator:
ROBIN GROSS, IP Justice Executive Director

Speakers:
   ~ PHILIPPE PETIT, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) 
Deputy Director General
   ~ JAMES LOVE, Consumer Project on Technology (CPT) Director
   ~ ALEX BYRNE, International Federation of Library Associations and 
Institutions (IFLA) President
   ~ GEORG GREVE, Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) President

Questions the panel will explore include:
   ~ What is the role of WIPO to determine international intellectual 
property rights?
   ~ How are Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO's) influencing the 
debate at WIPO?
   ~ Does digital technology alter the traditional balance between 
creators and the public?
   ~ What are the important issues that WIPO will address in 2006?
   ~ Why are poorer nations calling for a "Development Agenda" at WIPO?

Questions regarding this WSIS parallel event should be directed to 
robin at ipjustice.org.

This announcement may be freely redistributed in its entirety and is 
available online at http://www.ipjustice.org/WSIS/WIPOpanel.shtml