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

[Robin Gross <robin@ipjustice.org>]

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@ipjustice.org.

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