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CONFERENCE ON THE POLITICS AND IDEOLOGY OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MARCH 2006 The Politics and Ideology of Intellectual Property Brussels, March 20-21, 2006
The conference will bring together a broad variety of political figures and stakeholders to look at the thinking that drives current intellectual property rule-making.
In recent years, intellectual property policy issues have gained higher profiles in Europe and the United States, as debates over patenting of software and business methods, copyright term extensions, the public domain nature of the Human Genome Project, access to medicine, peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, and other hot button issues have attracted a wide public audience.
The TACD conference will provide an opportunity to stand back from specific legislative proposals and consider the broader intellectual and philosophical aspects of the debate. In particular, the meeting will examine how the struggles over the control and ownership of the new knowledge economy relates to our concepts of ideology, in party political positions platforms and political rhetoric. It will also look at the role of both the transparent and non-transparent lobbying of government officials, opinion leaders and the public to build consensus or support for different intellectual property rules.
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