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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

16:00 Conceptualising Users Rights
Copyright, Open Access and Enforcement in Dialogue		 Caroline Ncube, Niva Elkin-­‐Korin, Michael Carroll, Lawrence Liang, Alek Tarkowski, Delia Brown, Heather Joseph,
Chair: Sean Flynn		 Leading thinkers will comment on the strategic and conceptual linkages between users rights campaigns being waged in copyright reform, in promoting open access policies and in resisting the global enforcement agenda. How are open models (either voluntary or prescribed) a useful parallel tool to expansion of limitations and exceptions in copyright to achieve similar legal reform goals? Where are open reforms and copyright reforms moving together? How will the CC policy change alter the work of CC affiliates? How are users advocates framing their resistance to the enforcement agenda in users rights terms and achieving similar goals through such advocacy? User Rights Network Homepage

Creative Commons Statement on Copyright Reform

Thursday, December 12, 2013
9:30 Introduction
 Open Policy Meets Copyright Reform		 Alek Tarkowski, Mike Carroll, Timothy Vollmer
10:30 Tea
9:45 Parallel Session 1
User rights reports from the field		 Erik Jossefson (Sweden) Markus Beckedahl (Germany), Miguel (Peru), Pedro Paranagua (Brazil), Carolina Rossini (Brazil), Agatha Kabugu (Kenya), Carolyn Dalton (Australia), Rebecca Giblin (Australia), Carolina Botero (Colombia),
Jonathan Band (USA), Riyadh Al-Balushi (Arab Countries), Hala Essalmawi (Egypt), Jarosław Lipszyc (Poland), Caroline Botero (Colombia), Leon Sanchez (Mexico)		 Advocates (including open advocates and CC affiliates) involved in promoting users rights around the world report on opportunities for positive change. What positive proposals are being offered in policy processes? What advocacy strategies are working? Where are the key opportunities for change and intervention? How are open and copyright reform strategies intersecting?
Parallel Session 2
Funding and Research:
Coherence in the International Open Agenda		 Programme leaders from prominent current Open projects will engage funder representatives in discussion on continuity and coherence in the Open research agenda.
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Small Groups – Building Strategies and Network Infrastructure to Support Users Rights in Copyright Reform.Groups are asked to discuss the following questions: What are the big strategic opportunities/entry points? What is the data/information needed? How do we build the infrastructure needed to achieve campaigns and undertake research? How can we better coordinate public interest and civil society responses to ongoing or proposed copyright reviews; how can we share resources, information, submissions to assist with policy engagement internationally? What more should a global network do to support domestic and international reform efforts?
Rhetoric and Framing Jaroslaw Lipszyc, Maira Sutton, Peter Jaszi
Infrastructure Building for Copyright Reviews and Reform Delia Brown, Pedro Paranagua, Rebecca Giblin, Carolyn Dalton
Creative Commons, Open Advocates & Copyright Reform Tim Vollmer, Paul Keller, Alek Tarkowski
Mythbusting Open Clauses Pedro Mizukami, Jonathan Band, Allan Rocha
Empirical Research Jenifer Urban, Walter Park, Mike Palmedo, Jeremy Malcolm
Compensation Bodo Balazs, Oluwaseyi Leigh
Human Rights and Litigation Strategy Beatriz Busaniche, Niva El Korin, Andrew Rens, Caroline Rossini, Antonio Martinez
 16:45 Track Leader Meeting Chairs: Sean Flynn, Caroline Ncube
Leaders named above participate		 Roundtable to discuss outcomes and next steps.

Friday, December 13, 2013
9:00 What Technology Patent Pools Can Learn from Access to Medicines Jorge Contreras, Sunil Abraham
10:30 Tea
10:45 Empirical Research on Copyright Walter Park, Jeremy Malcolm, Mike Palmedo PIJIP and Consumers International will share their plans to promote empirical research on copyright limitations and exceptions, including through creation of a global index on copyright flexibility and surveys of consumers and businesses. The workshop will engage participants in research design issues and recruit partners to help document alterations in copyright user rights over time.
13:00 Lunch
13:45 Reclaiming the World Trade Organization
A Modest Proposal for a WTO Agreement on the Supply of Global Public Goods		 Katy Athersuch, James Love The global community is confronted with an undersupply of global public goods, including but not limited to those involving knowledge goods. The current international trade architecture lacks the capacity to address free riding or the general undersupply of global public goods. The proposal for a WTO Agreement on the Supply of Knowledge as a Public Good frames the WTO as the institut8ion to host an international instrument to address the chronic undersupply of global public goods thus providing a timely solution to a pressing global challenge.

This session will evaluate a proposal for a trade framework and a multilateral agreement that would involve negotiations and binding commitments to support the creation of and access to certain public goods. In particular, the provision of global public goods involving knowledge would be enhanced by the creation of an agreement within the WTO that would feature binding commitments by governments to undertake actions to increase the supply of a heterogeneous class of public goods, operating in a fashion analogous to binding commitments to reduce tariffs and subsidies or to liberalize trade in services.
15:00 Full Global Congress Reconvenes Track report-backs and closing comments
17:00 CLOSE