Intellectual Property Panel @ APrIGF - June 16 2011

On June 16 2011 the Asia Pacific regional IGF included an Intellectual property panel which included NCUC members:

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Intellectual Property: ACTA and Other Controversies 
The Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement would be a treaty to put in place new and higher international standards on intellectual property enforcement. Apart from its obvious TRIPS-Plus nature and forceful use of ISPs as private police, ACTA reveals a couple of critically important aspects that deserve careful scrutiny from the perspective of Internet Governance. ACTA’s plurilateral and closed negotiation process directly goes against the multi-stakeholder and open and transparent participation principles developed for Internet Governance. ACTA’s narrow focus on intellectual property rights ignores human rights concerns, especially free speech and access to the Internet, that are essential in the information society. ACTA demonstrate the temptation to shift from the existing multilateral WIPO-WTO regime to a more restricted and opaque system to enforce the private exclusive rights on the global information network. In addition, other domestic (such as US Bill “Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA)”) or private (such as ICANN’s trademark measures in new gTLD process) enforcement measures for intellectual property will exert significant global impact. The session intends to have a vivid discussion on all these interesting issues in the most populous and economic-booming region of the world. 

• Mary Wong (University of New Hampshire)
• Goh Seow Hiong (CISCO) [Presentation Slides]
• Jordan Carter (InternetNZ) [Presentation Slides]
• Siew Kum Hong (Yahoo! Southeast Asia)
• Lim Yee Fen (NTU)
• William J. Drake (IPMZ University of Zurich)