Recognizing that these issues are of vital concern to the entire world, the TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue and the Initiative for Policy Dialogue jointly held a two-day meeting on June 13 and 14, 2005, at Columbia University to marshal historical, theoretical, and political analysis on these matters.
Partners
- TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue
London, United Kingdom - Rockefeller Brothers Fund
New York, New York, United States
There is increasing concern about the formulation of intellectual property regimes that best serve the public, including those implemented in developing countries. The issue was placed firmly on the agenda at the General Assembly Meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva the past fall under the initiative of Argentina, Brazil and many other developing countries. The call was renewed at the Seoul ministerial meeting of the least developed countries the following month, and has now been reinforced by a recent paper from a group of 14 developing countries (the Friends of Development), calling for a global framework that promotes development and ‘access to knowledge for all.’
Concerns about access to knowledge and life saving drugs and enhanced disparities between the developed and developing countries lie behind these calls. Yet defenders of existing movements towards stronger intellectual property rights contend that all will benefit. The issue is of vital concern to the entire world, and it is important to marshal what history, theory, evidence, and solid policy analysis as opposed to special interest posturing has to say.
To consider these matters, the TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue, which has a secretariat in London and the Initiative for Policy Dialogue jointly held a two-day meeting on June 13 and 14, 2005, at Columbia University.
Participants:
- Diana Barrowclough
Task Force Member
Senior Economist
Office of the Secretary General
UNCTAD - Yochai Benkler
Task Force Member
Professor of Law
Yale Law School - Leonardo Burlamaqui
Task Force Member
Professor
State University of Rio de Janeiro - Ana Celia Castro
Task Force Member
Professor
Universidad Federal Rio de Janeiro - Andrew Charlton
Task Force Member
Research Fellow
London School of Economics - Sudip Chaudhuri
Task Force Member
Professor
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta - Mario Cimoli
Task Force Chair
Professor of Economics
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice - Carlos Correa
Task Force Member
Professor
CEIDIE-University of Buenos Aires - David Kennedy
Task Force Member
Professor
Harvard Law School - James Love
Task Force Member
Director
Knowledge Ecology International - Sisule Musungu
Task Force Member
Team Leader, Programme on International Trade & Development
South Centre - Akbar Noman
Task Force Member
Senior Policy Fellow
Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) - Luigi Orsenigo
Task Force Member
Professor, Knowledge, Internationalization and Technology Studies
Bocconi University - Jerome Reichman
Task Force Chair
Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law
Duke Law School - Pedro Roffe
Task Force Member
Director
ICTSD Project on Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development - Joseph Stiglitz
Task Force Member
President
Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) - Luis Villarroel
Task Force Member
Copyright Legal Adviser
Ministry of Education of Chile - Harald Alvestrand
Task Force Member
Chairman
Internet Engineering Task Force - Josefina Aquino
Task Force Member
Counsellor
Dominican Republic Mission
Geneva - Jorge Avila
Task Force Member
President
Instituto Nacional de Propriedade Industrial - Jack Balkin
Task Force Member
Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment
Yale Law School
- Michael Behan
Task Force Member
Senior Policy Advisor
U.S. Representative Bernard Sanders - Marie de Cenival
Task Force Member
Ethique dans la recherche
Sidaction - Michelle Childs
Task Force Member
Head of European Affairs
Consumer Project on Technology - Michael Conroy
Task Force Member
Program Officer
Democratic Practice (Global)
Rockefeller Brothers Fund - Michael Daignault
Task Force Member
Associate
Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines
Doctors Without Borders/ Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) - Eleonore Dailly
Task Force Member
Consumer Project on Technology - Klaske de Jonge
Task Force Member
Director
Consumentenbond - Nicoletta Dentico
Task Force Member
President
Global Health Watch - Rochelle Dreyfuss
Task Force Member
Professor of Law
New York University Law School - Phil Evans
Task Force Member
Principal Policy Adviser
Which? - Terry Fisher
Task Force Member
Professor of Law
Harvard Law School - Vera Franz
Task Force Member
Program Officer
Information Program
Open Society Institute - Marta Gabrieloni
Task Force Member
Counsellor
Permanent Mission of Argentina
Geneva - Thomas Gebauer
Task Force Member
General Director
Medico International - Christoph Goldmann
Task Force Member
Campaign Coordinator
Medico International - Bjorn Gillsater
Task Force Member
Senior Expert
Global Public Goods Task Force - Jean Halloran
Task Force Member
Director
Food Policy Initiatives
Consumers Union - Roumeen Islam
Task Force Member
Manager
Poverty Reduction and Economic Management
World Bank Institute - Amy Kapczynski
Task Force Member
Visiting Professor of Law
Yale AIDS Coalition
Yale Law School - Rhoda Karpatkin
Task Force Member
President Emeritus
US Consumers Union - Eddan Katz
Task Force Member
Executive Director
Information Society Project
- Cornelia Kutterer
Task Force Member
Senior Legal Advisor
BEUC (Bureau Europeen des Unions de Consommateurs) - Ronaldo Lemos da Silva
Task Force Member
Professor
University of Sao Paolo - Ed Mierzsinski
Task Force Member
Director
Consumer Program
US Public Interest Research Group - Eben Moglen
Task Force Member
Professor of Law & Legal History
Columbia Law School - Barry Nalebuff
Task Force Member
Professor
Yale School of Management - Michael Palmedo
Task Force Member
Consumer Project on Technology - Guilherme de Aguiar Patriota
Task Force Member
Brazilian Ambassador to the United Nations
Brazilian Mission to the UN - Cristina Possas
Task Force Member
Head of Unity of Research and Technological Development
National STD-AIDS Program
Ministry of Health - Claudio Prado
Task Force Member
Ministry of Culture
Brazil - Sanya Reid Smith
Task Force Member
Third World Network (TWN) - Manon Ress
Task Force Member
Research Associate
Consumer Project on Technology - Will Rodger
Task Force Member
Director
Public Policy
Computer and Communications Industry Association - Rodrigo Salinas
Task Force Member
Ministry of Health
Chile - Joan Shigekawa
Task Force Member
Rockefeller Foundation - Kenneth Sokoloff
Task Force Member
Professor
UCLA - Joy Spencer
Task Force Member
Consumer Project on Technology - Jacques St Amant
Task Force Member
Analyst
Option consommateurs - David Tannenbaum
Task Force Member
Coordinatior
Union for the Public Domain - Ellen T’Hoen
Task Force Member
Coordinator
Globalisation Project of the Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines - Ben Wallis
Task Force Member
Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue Coordinator
Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue