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Global consumer advocacy body Consumers International (CI) has released its inaugural Intellectual Property (IP) Watch list, a global snapshot of how national IP and copyright laws serve or subvert consumer interests.
The report shows that Australian consumers suffer some of the greatest restrictions in relation to use of copyrighted material including music, DVD and published works. [...]

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You can view speaker presentations, video interviews with delegates and speakers and congress photos online at the following places. We will be uploading speaker papers where there was no presentation as soon as we can get copies. We hope to upload audio files of all sessions in the near future. In the next few days [...]

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Catherine Raffaele reports that a number of presentations are now available from speakers at Monday’s fringe meeting Increasing Consumers Voice in Intellectual Property Policy.
Intellectual property policies are increasingly affecting consumers’ lives. Access to knowledge in many developing countries is limited by over-restrictive copyright policies.Patent protection policies can restrict access to medicines which mean the [...]

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With the permission of the speakers, we’ll be uploading some of the presentations from this year’s Congress on Slideshare. Just go to www.slideshare.net/CI.World.Congress.2007 to view the available presentations, such as Dr. Jiraporn Limpananont’s presentation on access to medicines in Thailand, from yesterday’s Intellectual Property side event.

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As an Australian consumer, I’m not able to copy a DVD I own and watch it on my laptop. It’s not that I can’t do it, or even that I’m not allowed to do so, but under Australian law, it’s illegal to overcome the anti-copying software included on my DVDs.
This was just one of the [...]

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Consumers’ rights to use intellectual property are increasingly under threat. Policy is made at an international level – how can national consumer organisations work better to strengthen their voice on the global stage?
An all day workshop on 29 October will introduce current consumer campaigns and brainstorm ideas for action to reassert consumer rights. Here’s the [...]

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