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Heres a go at a more fundamental rewrite – just to stress and bring out a few points . I’ve also lessened the human rights emphasis in the wording – not because it is not important, but because I would like to see red herrings that will distract from support for this debate removed. Let me know what you think.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>Access to knowledge is part of the great promise of the Internet in aiding development, education and culture both within and between countries.<BR>
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However, 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. <BR>
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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. Often this puts Internet Service Providers in the position of an “Internet police”, with the role to oversight internet users. <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>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 impacts of this agenda on issues such as access to knowledge, and the ability to innovate online. <BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>Michael Gurstein <<a href="gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</a>><BR>
<B>Reply-To: </B><<a href="governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a>>, Michael Gurstein <<a href="gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</a>><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 11:02:20 -0800<BR>
<B>To: </B><<a href="governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a>>, 'Marilia Maciel' <<a href="mariliamaciel@gmail.com">mariliamaciel@gmail.com</a>><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>RE: [governance] Draft statement on Nairobi meeting programme<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><FONT FACE="Arial">I've made one small editorial change below... ("graduated" rather than "graduate")..<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><FONT FACE="Arial">I also, think there should be a paragraph in there about the ways in which various parties are trying to build copyright protection directly into the tech--software, hardware and I believe into carriage as well (and the risks/implications of this... I don't have the words to write that para but I' would guess others on the list do...<BR>
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<B>From:</B> <a href="governance-request@lists.cpsr.org">governance-request@lists.cpsr.org</a> [<a href="mailto:governance-request@lists.cpsr.org">mailto:governance-request@lists.cpsr.org</a>] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Marilia Maciel<BR>
<B>Sent:</B> Sunday, January 23, 2011 8:10 AM<BR>
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<B>Subject:</B> Re: [governance] Draft statement on Nairobi meeting programme<BR>
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<B>Intellectual property enforcement online and its impact on development and human rights<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>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.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>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. <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>The enforcement agenda also impacts the exercise of rights online. The adoption of laws that follow the model of “</SPAN></FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'> graudated </SPAN><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'> </SPAN></FONT></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> 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. <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>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. <BR>
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On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Lee W McKnight <<a href="lmcknigh@syr.edu">lmcknigh@syr.edu</a>> wrote:<BR>
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A quick word of encouragement for Marila to draft a fourth possible a2k theme, can't hurt right.<BR>
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But in general I am fine with Jeremy's distillation of three workable themes<BR>
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From: <a href="governance-request@lists.cpsr.org">governance-request@lists.cpsr.org</a> [<a href="governance-request@lists.cpsr.org">governance-request@lists.cpsr.org</a>] On Behalf Of Marilia Maciel [<a href="mariliamaciel@gmail.com">mariliamaciel@gmail.com</a>]<BR>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 7:02 PM<BR>
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To: <a href="governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a><BR>
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Hi Jeremy,<BR>
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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>
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On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <<a href="jeremy@ciroap.org<mailto:jeremy">jeremy@ciroap.org<mailto:jeremy</a>@ciroap.org>> 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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