Yale University is throwing a conference on "Access to Knowledge" — an umbrella term that encompasses the humanitarian, creative, entrepreneurial and scholarly elements of the copyfight. Access to Knowledge (A2K) is also the name of a proposed treaty at the UN copyright agency, WIPO, which sets out the information rights every nation should guarantee to its archivists, educators, and disabled people. It would be the first treaty to establish minimum user rights for copyrighted works, including limits on DRM.
From April 21st to April 23rd, 2006, join policy makers, activists, industry leaders, and academics at Yale Law School for a conference addressing this topic in areas such as intellectual property policy, telecommunications, education, culture, science, and health care. Leading thinkers and advocates from North, South, East and West will focus on generating cutting edge research agendas, concrete policy solutions, and strategic partnerships for the next decade.
Plenary Panels defining Access to Knowledge include:
— Framing A2K in human rights and development
— Political economy of trade treaties and intellectual property
— The economics of information
— Privacy, national security, and free expression
— Innovative public and private solutions to knowledge access and knowledge production in developing countriesAccess to Knowledge Conference
Yale Information Society Project, Yale Law School
April 21-23, 2006
(Thanks, Eddan!)
