Category WIPO

WIPO Panel: Rights Management Information At Core Of IP Protection

By Catherine Saez
The growing volume of audiovisual, musical or text-based content online offers opportunities and challenges to copyright owners, intermediaries such as search engines, and users, according to panellists at a recent World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) seminar. Among the challenges are the ownership, licensing and management of intellectual property.

Rights Management Information (RMI), as defined in the 1996 WIPO "Internet" treaties, identifies content protected by copyright or related rights, the rights owners for such content and the terms and conditions of use associated with it. RMI is playing an essential role in protecting copyrights in the network environment, according to panellists, most of whom were from an industry perspective.

Catherine Saez
October 1, 2007

WIPO Launches New Agenda On IP And Development

By William New The member governments of the World Intellectual Property Organization on Friday formally adopted a new Development Agenda, launching an enhanced development orientation across all of its activities, with details on implementation to be determined later. “This is…

William New
September 29, 2007
2 Comments

WIPO Group On DG At Impasse As Idris Defence Challenged

A special panel of member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization appears to have reached impasse on its mandate this week of examining reports on possible wrongdoing involving the WIPO director general. The group, formed after key members called…

William New
September 28, 2007
1 Comment

WIPO Calls For “A Regular and Fair Procedure, Please”

By André Heitz, director of the WIPO Coordination Office in Brussels As widely reported on this site, there are strong moves to push Mr. Kamil Idris out of his position of Director General, this against the background of various allegations…

William New
September 28, 2007
5 Comments

Development Agenda Tops Policy Issues For WIPO General Assembly

By William New As delegates to the annual World Intellectual Property Organization General Assemblies work through questions of organisational leadership and credibility this week, they may be looking forward to a return to agenda items related to policy. And according…

William New
September 26, 2007
1 Comment

WIPO Assembly Strikes Short-Term Deal On Director General Issue

By William New The member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization on Tuesday reached an agreement on how to address concerns raised about Director General Kamil Idris during this week’s annual General Assembly. According to participants, a broad agreement…

William New
September 25, 2007

High-Level Group Debates Idris Issue As WIPO Assails Charges

By William New The annual General Assemblies of the UN World Intellectual Property Organization member states snagged the first day on a proposed agenda to discuss potential wrongdoing by the WIPO director general. By day’s end, a high-level group formed…

William New
September 24, 2007
2 Comments

Des craintes surgissent quant à l’éventuelle création d’une Organisation panafricaine de propriété intellectuelle

par Tove Iren S. Gerhardsen Bien qu’il n’en soit qu’à un stade embryonnaire, le projet de créer une Organisation panafricaine de propriété intellectuelle (OPAPI) se heurterait déjà à des oppositions, notamment inspirées par la crainte de voir l’Afrique s’engager sur…

William New
September 24, 2007
1 Comment

WIPO Conference Tackles IP-Health Dynamic

By Paul Garwood Intellectual property can help improve public health, but drug research costs must be controlled so patients in poor countries can afford urgently needed medicines, a World Intellectual Property Organization symposium heard Wednesday. The Geneva-staged event, at which…

Paul Garwood
September 21, 2007

Pressures High On Eve Of WIPO General Assembly; DG Under Fire

By William New Tensions are high at the World Intellectual Property Organization leading up to the annual General Assemblies next week with member states discussing the fate of the WIPO director general, who developed country member states claim has lost…

William New
September 20, 2007
1 Comment

Development Agenda Implementation Discussed Before WIPO Assemblies

By Paul Garwood More technical assistance to developing countries, closer collaboration between UN agencies and overhauling the World Intellectual Property Organization were among calls made during a conference of leading players in the intellectual property community held Monday. The conference,…

Paul Garwood
September 18, 2007

WIPO’s Gurry Details Efforts On International Patent Needs

By Liza Porteus for Intellectual Property Watch NEW YORK – A supplementary international patent search will be introduced and likely approved during the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) General Assembly meeting later this month, WIPO Deputy Director Francis Gurry told…

Liza Porteus Viana
September 12, 2007