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.

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…

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…

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…

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…