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  size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
  12.0pt;color:black'>Access to knowledge (A2K) is essential for promoting
  human rights, economic and cultural development, innovation, individual
  freedom and creativity.  The Third Access to Knowledge conference (A2K3)
  will bring together scholars, policymakers, industry, and civil society to
  discuss key issues in global knowledge policy.  Topics will include: the
  history, impact, and future of the global A2K movement; the relationship
  between A2K and human rights; A2K and the WIPO Development Agenda; the impact
  of international trade rules on A2K; copyright exceptions and limitations in
  the information society; open business models; research and capacity building
  for A2K; prizes as alternatives to intellectual property monopolies; promoting
  open access to science and research; technologies of access such as community
  wireless, open source, and open standards; and public mobilization in the
  networked and digital global public sphere.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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  12.0pt;color:black'>The A2K3 conference is organized by the Information
  Society Project at Yale Law School (Yale ISP), in collaboration with
  Electronic Information for Libraries (elFL.Net), Electronic Frontier
  Foundation (EFF), Centre for Technology and Society at the Fundacao Getulio
  Vargas School of Law (FGV) – Rio, International Centre for Trade and
  Sustainable Development(ICTSD), International Federation of Library
  Associations and Institutions (IFLA), IQsensato, Knowledge Ecology
  International (KEI), Library Copyright Alliance (LCA), UNU-MERIT and 3D
  –Trade-Human Rights and Equitable Economy.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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