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Intellectual Property Rights as Threat to Justice, Development and Democracy?
Nov 30, 2006, Berlin
The German Federal Government wants to emphasize the issue of intellectual property rights
(patents, copyrights, brand names etc.) on the G8-summit. They have a strong interest to advance
German economy's interests by strengthening intellectual property rights.
It is not on any G8-agenda, however, that this leads to the obstruction of development of countries
of the global South, damages consumer interests and partly even human rights.
The control of these intellectual property rights leads to a increasing surveillance of the internet and large parts of the population.
On this conference we will approach the topic from three different threads: medication, seeds and
digital media. We would like to highlighten differences and similarities and elaborate mutual activities for the G8-summit.
Here you will find the presentations of the day as PDF:
- Access Denied? Patents and HIV/AIDS - Tobias Luppe_MSF
- access to information for open innovation - Rainer Kuhlen_University of Constance
- Saatgut und geistige Eigentumsrechte - Mute Schimpf_Misereor
- Arzneimittel ohne Patentschutz? - Christian Wagner_BUKO Pharmakampagne
- Needs driven health Research & Development
The International Context – trying to fix a broken system
Colleen Daniels_Healthcare International
- Multiplication can produce powerful numbers - Magnus Eriksson_Piratbyran
- Getting Globalization Right with Knowledge Goods - Judit Rius Sanjuan_CPTech_KEI
Host organisations:
EED - medico international - Attac - BuKo Pharma-Kampagne - BUKO-Kampagne gegen Biopiraterie - Médicins Sans Frontières -
German Forum on Environment and Development - Arbeitsgemeinschaft bäuerliche Landwirtschaft - AIDS-Kampagne - Netzwerk Freies Wissen -
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI,formerly known as CPTech) - Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv)
Contact: Oliver Moldenhauer, moldenhauer@attac.de
More info on the topic (German):
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