Framing Access to Medicines
Contemporary questions over access to medicines are speeding up as quickly as the advance of science. New drugs for a range of diseases are extending life and transforming health systems, with breakthroughs especially affecting the global South just in the past few years. The IP regime is also expanding and there are genuine questions around what a 21st century response looks like. How do we frame a pro-public health, pro-access, pro-innovation agenda? What alternatives to IP maximalism have a real chance of success? And how are academics and civil society responding?
...Conceptualising Users' Rights: Copyright, Open Access and Enforcement in Dialogue
Leading thinkers comment on the strategic and conceptual linkages between users rights campaigns being waged in copyright reform, in promoting open access policies and in resisting the global enforcement agenda. How are open models (either voluntary or prescribed) a useful parallel tool to expansion of limitations and exceptions in copyright to achieve similar legal reform goals? Where are open reforms and copyright reforms moving together? How will the Creative Commons (CC) policy change alter the work of CC affiliates? How are users advocates framing their resistance to the enforcement agenda in users rights terms and achieving similar goals through such advocacy?Presentation on national traditional knowledge register/databases in Peru, followed by discussion. Presentation slides available below.
...Presentation on India's Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL), followed by discussion.
...Parallel Session 1: User Rights Reports from the Field: Advocates (including open advocates and CC affiliates) involved in promoting users rights around the world report on opportunities for positive change. What positive proposals are being offered in policy processes? What advocacy strategies are working? Where are the key opportunities for change and intervention? How are open and copyright reform strategies intersecting? Presentation slides available below.
...How Enforcement Works: Despite the centrality of enforcement to Internet policy debates, there is still surprisingly little work on its actual practice: how it is organized in the public and private sectors, how much it costs, how effective it is, what role the courts play, and so on. This session will explore recent work and opportunities for research on the practices of enforcement, from the growth of distinctive ‘enforcement industries,’ to efforts to estimate economic impact, to accounts of border enforcement against counterfeit goods.
...Presentation on South Africa's National Recordal System (NRS), followed by discussion.
...Building strategies and network infrastructure to support users rights in copyright reform: Track participants will meet in the main room and divide into discussion groups. Discussion leaders have been identified. Participants may self-assign into any group they please. Each discussion group will deliberate over a set of similar questions, listed below, but may concentrate on those – or others they choose – most relevant to their session subject.
1. What are the big strategic opportunities/entry points?
2. What is the data/info needed?Advocates and Copyright Reform:
Alek Tarkowski, Tim Vollmer, Paul Keller
Rhetoric and Framing:
Krzysztof Siewicz, Radek Czajka, Maira Sutton, Peter Jaszi
Infrastructure Building for Copyright Reviews and Reform:
Delia Brown, Pedro Paranagua, Rebecca Giblin, Carolyn Dalton, Erik Josefsson
Mythbusting Open Clauses:
Pedro Mizukami, Jonathan Band, Allan Rocha
Empirical Research:
Jenifer Urban, Walter Park, Mike Palmedo, Jeremy Malcolm, Nagla Rizk
Compensation:
Balazs Bodo, Oluwaseyi Leigh
Human Rights and Litigation Strategy:
Beatriz Busaniche, Niva El Korin, Andrew Rens, Caroline Rossini, Antonio Martinez ...Open Space Session: Aspects of Health-Related Intellectual Property and Use of TRIPS Flexibilities
1. Patent oppositions: Improving the Patent Opposition Database, identifying opportunities for patent oppositions, areas for support and collaboration
2. Improving importation of generics through compulsory licences
3. Voluntary licensing: challenges, pools, and strategies
A presentation on the latest developments at international and regional levels of TK documentation and protection (WIPO IGC, ARIPO, OAPI). Presentation slides available below.
...The Event: Screening of internationally acclaimed documentary “Fire in the Blood” about the quest for making affordable ARVs available to the developing world, followed by a panel discussion on how access to medicines is impacted by intellectual property.
18:00-18:30: Welcome drinks and music by Peter Maybarduk
18:30-20:00: Screening of "Fire in the Blood"
20:00-21:00: Panel discussion with Eric Goemaere (MSF), Kajal Bhardwaj (India), Jamie Love (KEI)
Mythbusting OER: Starting with positive case study of obstacle successfully won by open movement like later during workshop We will set up list of core myths and barriers (like loss of control, commercial appropriation, no business models, lack of quality control). We will discuss solutions and best resources to make that myth-busting more reliable. We will search for answers for questions and barriers scattered among many projects and use our basic map of those resources as starting point for making a more detailed map of myths and responses to them during the workshop.
...How is TK held in other countries in Africa? Discussion with participants.
...Workshop participants will work in small breakout groups and use active workshop methods to brainstorm and select crucial next steps for moving forward open policies around the world.
...An opportunity to share briefing statements arising out of OpenAIR/GC proceedings.