On 21-22 April, Kuala Lumpur hosted a gathering of 36 Consumers International members and partners for its first global meeting on Access to Knowledge. The meeting included the launches of CIi‘s 2010 IP Watchlist, which has since gained much media interest, and our runaway hit short film When Copyright Goes Bad, which has since accumulated almost 50 thousand page views in English and Spanish.
The first day of the meeting was devoted to reporting to and from our members on the activities of CI’s A2Ki programme over the past year. A brief summary of each of the first day’s sessions is presented below, with links to the presentation slides if applicable (in whichever format the originals were provided; usually OpenDocument Format, PDF or Microsoft Powerpoint):
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A review of A2K project to date given by the project coordinator, Jeremy Malcolm, described its main outputs and activities: the IP Watch List, the survey on A2K Access Barriers, regional meetings on A2K, an A2K Handbook, country-level research on copyright limitations and exceptions, the A2K film, and advocacy and campaigning activities.
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The launch of the 2010 IP Watchlist took place, revealing the placing of 34 countries worldwide on their respect for consumers’ interests in copyright law and enforcement practices. An interesting and useful background to this report was given in a presentation on the 300th Anniversary of the Statute of Anne delivered by Saskia Walzel of Consumer Focus, UK.
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In place of the scheduled report on the A2K access barrier survey (which was postponed by one day), Najiba el Amrani El Idrissi and Mohamed Abdou Ammor of Atlas Sa
