Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) site

British Copyright Council

Global Network on IPR reserach

Gower Review: an independent review into intellectual property rights in the UK, reporting to the Chancellor, the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in Autumn 2006.
A Call for Evidence has been launched. www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/gowers

Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute

SOSIG : Social Science Information Gateway

International Communication and Art Law Lucerne (iCALL), the eDiversity Project run by Professor Christoph-Beat Graber at www.i-call.ch

Patenting Lives is a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and hosted by the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, University of London.

CONFERENCES:

CIER conference on The Human Rights Paradox in Intellectual Property Law in Utrecht 3-4 July 2006. Information at www.cier.nl as well as on 2006cier@fbu.uu.nl




Linked papers:
'Beyond Authorship:Imagining Rights in Traditional Culture and Bioknowledge'. This article was orginally written by Peter Jaszi and Martha Woodmansee. Additional text and notation has been created by the Authorship Collaboratory at Case Western Reserve University.

IMAGINING A WORLD WITHOUT COPYRIGHT
The market and temporary protection a better alternative for artists and the public domain
An essay by Marieke van Schijndel & Joost Smiers

Open Letter from Joost Smiers to members of the AHRB Research Network on New Directions in Copyright Law