The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has announced that WIPO Director General Francis Gurry and Harvard University professor Lawrence Lessig will open a meeting hosted by WIPO in Geneva on copyright licensing. The event, scheduled for November 4 and 5, 2010, will feature a range of eminent speakers from government, business and civil society.
The global meeting on 'Facilitating Access to Culture in the Digital Age' will explore different approaches to licensing creative content in the rapidly evolving on-line marketplace and in view of the proliferation of new forms of on-line distribution. It will bring together a wide range of stakeholders, including leaders in the field of public policy-making and business, to explore the challenges confronting creators and users in accessing creative content and harnessing its commercial value in the digital environment.
Licensing is a mechanism used by right-holders to authorise others to use their intellectual property under agreed terms and conditions. It is therefore a key element in ensuring the availability of creative content and the remuneration of creators. The Global Meeting will help to showcase emerging content distribution licensing models and consider how these can coexist with more traditional licensing approaches in the online environment. It will examine the role of public authorities, including governments and international organisations, and explore the way forward.
Discussion will focus on the need to ensure that copyright licensing transactions are underpinned by improved rights management information and documentation as well as respect to competition rules. The meeting seeks to raise the awareness on the complexities underlining a wide range of licensing practices in different sectors, including the online market for music, the software industry and open access publishing. Speakers will address a range of target topics that will be analysed and discussed from an intellectual property and a competition law perspective.
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