THE POLITICS AND IDEOLOGY OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, BRUSSELS, MARCH 20-21, 2006

• Rhetoric and Ideology - IP and the Knowledge Commons, James Love, Consumer Project on Technology.
• The Commons, The Public Domain and (Monopoly) Commerce, Peter Drahos, Australian National University.
• Capabilities in the Information Era, Philippe Aigrain, Transversales.

• Politics & Ideology of Intellectual Property - The Role of Civil Society, Sangeeta Shashikant, Third World Network.
• Books, Drugs and Seeds: the Politics of Access, Susan Sell, George Washington University.

• Political Parties, Rufus Pollock, Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII-UK).

• Intellectual Property & Politics, Declan McCullagh, CNET.
• The Politics of Access to Knowledge: Some Perspectives on IP and Traditional Knowledge & Cultural Expressions, Antony Taubman, World Intellectual Property Organization

• IP & the Politics of New Technologies, Kenneth Cukier, The Economist.
• The Politics of New Technologies, Luc Soete, United Nations University.
• Intellectual Property and the Collaborative Mode of Production: Rebalancing Private Incentives and Public Circulation in the Digital Age, Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation of America.

• New Political Paradigms, Sisule Musungu, South Centre.
• Intellectual Monopoly Privileges, Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation and the Knowledge Commons-New Political Paradigms for Wisdom in the Age of Corporate Globalisation, Tom Faunce, Australian National University.
• New Paradigms, Mohamed Ben Ahmed, University of La Manouba, Tunisia.

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