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Essay Topic: Digital divide of intellectual property between Third world countries and first world countries. Limited access to technology: wealthy verse poor.
Minimum 10 maximum 12 double spaced pages in 12 point font, excluding bibliography and any tables or figures. Use as many sources as you need.
Term papers can be written on any subject of interest to the student that has relevance and implications with respect to how intellectual property affects any aspect of human communication.
Papers must be fully documented and referenced in an accepted scholarly style (e.g. MLA, Harvard etc.).
Pre-done research/Topics to touch on:
o IP affairs were coordinated by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Un agency
Upholding Berne and Paris conventions
Responsibility for reflecting the interests of all UN Member states regardless of level of development
WIPO remains treaty organization
History of IP Trade:
o Troubling
o A lot of it had to do with the technology advancement
o 1970: group of 77 developing countries
Technological hegemony
Cannot get access to technology developed countries have access too,
Arguing for protection, But never actually got answer
o 1980: US position of IP changes
US against monopoly, individualism, toughest anti trust legislation
Aggressively promoting free trade becoming the rational for reforming the IP systems
Technology changing and getting smaller: industry was changing,
IT changed attitude towards IP
o Towards TRIPS
Failed attempts to revise Paris convention AND developing country themselves changed their attitudes
, became disenchanted
**Milti-fibre Agreement** trade was not restricted to the type of fibre being sold. >>Developing countries
o Digital rights management
Device based IP protection (DCMA-1998)
Fair use rights? Who is protecting us? No one.
DCMA prevents dissemination of knowledge about DRM
No wrong to put protection on property, but the concept of balance has completely disappeared.
IRONY:
The economic logic of knowledge
Verses the commercial logic of protecting IP
Inventions of new models (eg. iTunes) saves the content industries
Another issue:
Genetic resources ex. Inuit/tribal society
o Toronto case recently
o Traditional knowledge
Key lessons:
o Not a natural right
HAD TO BE CONTSTRUCTED IN SOME WAY
o Ongoing political and economic negotiations between interest groups
Definition and characteristics have always been and will always be in negotiation based on social and economic situations
o A process biased historically to producers NOT creators
o An uneasy fit with normal principles of law
Ex. Fair use rights
o Difficult fit with the dynamics of knowledge
Historical mythologies, and contradictions
o Ex. Industrialization did NOT develop ways to develop IP
Because it was too difficult to obtain
o Was not OUTSIDE THE IP system
Issue: not an economic issue but a political legitimacy
Unattainable levels of protection over property that is abstractly defines.
Impossible of policy
Moral symettitry between the Law and moral practice
= problems
Adam smith-invisible hand?
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