<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for the encouragement, Lee.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
Please, guys, take a look at the draft below and tell me what you think. I am
not really sure about the title. I would prefer to frame it in a positive way
(ex: expressly talk about A2K), but my feeling is that being more specific on
what we want would give more strength to the proposal. In addition, I have a
feeling that A2K is sometimes wrongly perceived in IGF as too theoretical or
ideological, and people try to confine this debate to fora like WIPO, despite a clear intersection with IG. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">On the other hand, putting two controversial topics on the same sentence (IP and human rights) might not help much... Suggestions are welcome!<br>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Intellectual property
enforcement online and its impact on development and human rights<br></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Recently there has been
a change in the international intellectual property regime. Rather than
substantive law harmonization, international IP norm-setting is now promoting
an enforcement agenda, an increasingly punitive response to counterfeiting and
piracy now being discussed in many national and international institutions. It
is an emerging matrix of new laws, regulations, technologies, and public and
private initiatives designed to police the use of intellectual property,
specially in the digital environment.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">New international
standards require countries to increase the level and territorial extent of
intellectual property rights. This trend has developmental impacts, as
countries become less free to support open platforms for learning, innovating,
sharing and producing, while being required to raise the amount spent on knowledge-based
inputs. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The enforcement agenda
also impacts the exercise of rights online. The adoption of laws that follow
the model of “graduate response” in several countries around the world reveals
the trade-offs between the enforcement agenda and human rights, such as the
right to receive and impart information, the right to privacy and consumer´s
rights. Moreover, it puts ISPs in the position of an “Internet police”, with
the role to oversight internet users. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Governance of knowledge and Internet governance become deeply
intertwined in the context of an information society. The debate of this theme
in a multistakeholder forum, such as the IGF, would help to reach a more round understanding
about the impact of this enforcement agenda on human rights, more specifically
on access to knowledge, and on the ability to innovate online. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></p>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Lee W McKnight <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lmcknigh@syr.edu">lmcknigh@syr.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
<br>
A quick word of encouragement for Marila to draft a fourth possible a2k theme, can't hurt right.<br>
<br>
But in general I am fine with Jeremy's distillation of three workable themes<br>
<br>
Lee<br>
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</div><div class="im">Hi Jeremy,<br>
<br>
I did not suggest it as a forth theme, since you said that we generally only put forward three topics. If you guys believe that a fourth theme should be added, I would be happy to draft a text. If three themes seem to be the best way to go, I would like to ask us to *really* make A2K present in all discussions as you suggested. For that, we will need to carefully think about the approach and the names of speakers for the main sessions, who could link A2K with NN, transborder issues, etc. Of course, workshop proposals would be also important to reach a more rounded understanding of these interplays.<br>
<br>
Marília<br>
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</div><div class="im">On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <<a href="mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org">jeremy@ciroap.org</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org">jeremy@ciroap.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
On 23/01/2011, at 6:04 AM, Marilia Maciel wrote:<br>
While I agree with your approach that makes A2K a transversal issue, I believe it is very important that we go beyond words and really mainstream it on the debates.<br>
Marilia and Ian, I'm not sure from your comments if you are both saying that you want to see us putting forward a separate fourth theme (since I don't see anyone suggesting that we should remove one of the existing three themes). Could you clarify and, if that is what you are saying, perhaps suggest some text?<br>
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