Report of the Intellectual Property Rights Panel

Report of the meeting of the Intellectual Property Rights Panel held in September 1994, chaired by M.S. Swaminathan.. The report discusses the history of CGIAR engagement with IPR issues. It analyses CGIAR policy on patent issues, plant variety protection, in situ and ex situ conservation, and the dissemination of information on CGIAR genetic resources research. Annexes include earlier statements on related subjects by the CGIAR, the Center Directors, and the Rockefeller Foundation.Agenda document at CGIAR International Centers Week, October 1994

A Review of Intellectual Property Protection within the CGIAR

Report of the Center Directors' Committee on Intellectual Property Rights transmitted to those attending ICW93 as background for a panel discussion on IPR and implications for IARCs. The report reviews the various steps taken by the centers and the CGIAR on IPR issues from 1991, lists studies undertaken, and summarizes comments received from NGOs, international organizations, and private firms. One of several annexes contains a draft model agreement to place center collections of plant genetic resources under the auspices of FAO.Agenda document, CGIAR International Centers Week, October 1993

A Lunchtime Talk With Dr. Michal Shur-Ofry the Author of Copyright and the Holocaust

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A Lunchtime Talk With Dr. Michal Shur-Ofry

Should copyright law apply to writings, music, and art created by Holocaust victims and Nazi propaganda?https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/flyers-2017-2018/1078/thumbnail.jp

Intellectual Property Rights Issues

The CGIAR Secretariat distributed two documents as background for the discussion of intellectual property rights and related matters at the CGIAR Mid Term Meeting in May 1992.The first is a statement of the principles for an integrated policy on intellectual property rights, plant genetic resources, and biosafety originally prepared by Lukas Brader, co-chair of the TAC-Center Directors Committee on Intellectual Property Rights and Plant Genetic Resources, and revised following its discussion at TAC 56 and CGIAR International Centers Week 1991. This version was issued by the CGIAR Secretariat to members to solicit feedback prior to the Group's participation in discussions beginning in November 1991.of the proposed International Convention on Biodiversity to be signed at UNCED The second document is a discussion paper originally prepared, on the basis of various consultations among interested parties in the CGIAR, at a meeting of the joint TAC-Center Directors Committee in January 1992 with representatives of BIOTASK, discussed at TAC 57 and subsequently revised. It covers intellectual property, biosafety, and conservation of plant genetic resources, and has attachments on the International Undertaking on Plant Genetic Resources, types of intellectual property and both ex situ and in situ conservation.The CGIAR Mid Term Meeting in May 1992 approved a Working Document on Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property which is attached to the summary record of that meeting.This record contains documents related to the agendas of TAC 56 and 57, and the CGIAR meetings of October-November 1991 and May 1992

Discourse, justification and critique: towards a legitimate digital copyright regime?

Digitization and the internet have posed an acute economic challenge to rights holders in the cultural industries. Faced with a threat to their form of capital accumulation from copyright infringement, rights holders have used discourse strategically in order to try and legitimate and strengthen their position in the digital copyright debate with governments and media users. In so doing, they have appealed to general justificatory principles – about what is good, right, and just – that provide some scope for opposition and critique, as other groups contest their interpretation of these principles and the evidence used to support them. In this article, we address the relative lack of academic attention paid to the role of discourse in copyright debates by analysing user-directed marketing campaigns and submissions to UK government policy consultations. We show how legitimacy claims are justified and critiqued, and conclude that amid these debates rests some hope of achieving a more legitimate policy resolution to the copyright wars – or at least the possibility of beginning a more constructive dialogue

Product Development Partnerships: Case studies of a new mechanism for health technology innovation

There is a continuing need for new health technologies to address the disease burdens of developing countries. In the last decade Product Development Partnerships (PDP) have emerged that are making important contributions to the development of these technologies. PDPs are a form of public private partnerships that focus on health technology development. PDPs reflect the current phase in the history of health technology development: the Era of Partnerships, in which the public and private sectors have found productive ways to collaborate. Successful innovation depends on addressing six determinants of innovation. We examine four case studies of PDPs and show how they have addressed the six determinants to achieve success