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[FYI] WIPO: Media Alert MA/2001/08



http://www.wipo.org/pressroom/en/alert/2001/ma08.htm

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Media Alert MA/2001/08  

Geneva, July 30, 2001   

WIPO-ORGANIZED MEETING TO PROBE ELECTRONIC COMMERCE AND INTELLECTUAL 
PROPERTY   

Representatives from industry, governments and the general public 
will meet in Geneva from September 19 to 21, 2001 to discuss recent 
and future commercial and technological developments in e-commerce 
and their impact on the intellectual property system.   

The Conference, organized by the World Intellectual Property 
Organization (WIPO), will examine the principal impact of e-commerce 
on the intellectual property system, and will cover issues including 
creation, ownership, identity and governance on the Internet. Focus 
will be on music, films and publishing on-line, domain names, 
business methods patents, branding, rights management systems, 
privacy, digital cultural heritage, and the influence of new 
information technologies on intellectual property service delivery.   

Speakers include government leaders and chief executives of major 
corporations involved in e-commerce. For details of the program and 
speakers see: http://ecommerce.wipo.int/meetings/2001/conference.   

The Conference will be held at the International Conference Center of 
Geneva (CICG), 15 rue de Varembé, 1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland. The 
Conference is open for registration on-line via the web site.  

The first such WIPO conference on e-commerce and intellectual 
property, held in September 1999, promoted better understanding of 
the relationship between e-commerce and the intellectual property 
system. It led to the launch of WIPO's Digital Agenda, a plan of 
action for adapting intellectual property to the digital age and to 
the adoption by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and 
Numbers (ICANN) of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, 
an expedited system for resolving domain name disputes. It confirmed 
that intellectual property rights are of central importance in 
maintaining a stable environment for the future development of e-
commerce.   

For further information, please contact the Media Relations  

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