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color:black'>Third Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K3)</span></font></b></span><font
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12.0pt;color:black'>Access to knowledge (A2K) is essential for promoting
human rights, economic and cultural development, innovation, individual
freedom and creativity. The Third Access to Knowledge conference (A2K3)
will bring together scholars, policymakers, industry, and civil society to
discuss key issues in global knowledge policy. Topics will include: the
history, impact, and future of the global A2K movement; the relationship
between A2K and human rights; A2K and the WIPO Development Agenda; the impact
of international trade rules on A2K; copyright exceptions and limitations in
the information society; open business models; research and capacity building
for A2K; prizes as alternatives to intellectual property monopolies; promoting
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wireless, open source, and open standards; and public mobilization in the
networked and digital global public sphere.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Society Project at Yale Law School (Yale ISP), in collaboration with
Electronic Information for Libraries (elFL.Net), Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF), Centre for Technology and Society at the Fundacao Getulio
Vargas School of Law (FGV) – Rio, International Centre for Trade and
Sustainable Development(ICTSD), International Federation of Library
Associations and Institutions (IFLA), IQsensato, Knowledge Ecology
International (KEI), Library Copyright Alliance (LCA), UNU-MERIT and 3D
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href="http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/7106.htm" target="_blank"><span
lang=EN-GB>http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/7106.htm</span></a><o:p></o:p></font></p>
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