<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi<div><br></div><div>Parminder could you help me to understand the desired focus? To me, trans-border enforcement connotes a government or other actor based in one territorial unit unilaterally establishing/enforcing rules applicable in other units, i.e. extraterritoriality. If memory serves this was the focus of the IGC workshop we were on in Hyderabad. In contrast, ACTA and the UNESCO treaty (which will be hard to 'enforce') involve the negotiated harmonization of rules, with enforcement being an undertaking each government commits to within its jurisdiction. These are rather different architectures, no?</div><div><br></div><div>If the driving interest here is unilateral/extraterritorial, I'd suggest picking cases in which that model's been followed and comparing, generalizing. If instead it is the substantive policy problem of IPR, maybe it'd be interesting to frame this as a comparative assessment of different policy architectures for that? After all, ACTA is a plurilateral response to the increasing difficulties its protagonists have faced getting their way in multilateral settings like WIPO, and to the perceived inadequacies and costs of building an architecture through unilateral imposition and bilateral FTAs...Just a suggestion.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br></div><div>PS: Small quibble, paradigms and social orders are not the same thing.</div><div><br></div><div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 11, 2010, at 3:26 PM, Parminder wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<font face="serif">Attempting a quick </font><font face="serif">first
</font><font face="serif">draft for the proposed workshop. <br>
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Proposed workshop title : </font><font face="serif">'</font>Transnational
(or trans-border) enforcement of a new information order – Issues of
rights and
democracy'<br>
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Internet is shaping a new global information and knowledge paradigm or
order. In this respect, many technical issues interact with
institutional frameworks around information and knowledge - like IP,
but also FoE, cultural rights etc - to develop a unique and
unprecedented global system of information and knowledge flows and
controls. Trans-border institutional mechanism become a key issue in
this regards - and trans-border enforcement of IP laws is a strongly
contested subject right now. The pluri-lateral treaty
'Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Act', currently being negotiated has been in
the eye of the storm, both vis a vis local constituencies in the
countries which are a part of the negotiation, and developing countries
who fear that such treaties negotiated without their participation may
become the default global institutional framework, including through
bilateral FTAs . <br>
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Apart from IP issues, trans-border enforcement on and through the
Internet also has implications for FoE and cultural rights regimes (For
instance the recent UNECSO treaty on cultural goods). <br>
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The proposed workshop will address the above issues, specifically
employing the lenses of rights (right to knowledge, FoE, cultural
rights etc) and democracy (right to self determination and political
participation). <br>
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