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Global Congress on Public Interest Intellectual Property Law

March 24th, 2011

The Global Congress on Public Interest Intellectual Property is being created as an alternative forum to the annual industry-organized Global
Congress Against Counterfeiting and Piracy, which was one of the main incubators for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and other
components of the ongoing enforcement agenda in international intellectual property law. The enforcement agenda has come under increasing scrutiny from public interest advocates and independent researchers, including through the recently released Media Piracy in Emerging Economies report
http://piracy.ssrc.org/the-report/. Taking these research and advocacy interventions as a starting point, the Global Congress on Public Interest
Intellectual Property will serve as a site for the sharing of research, ideas and policy proposals for how international intellectual property law
should be constructed to better protect the full range of global public interest concerns.

American University Washington College of Law (WCL) will host the first Global Congress on Public Interest Intellectual Property August 25-27, 2011. The Global Congress will be co-hosted by WCL¹s Program on Justice and Intellectual Property, Fundação Getulio Vargas¹s Center for Technology and Society (Brazil), the American Assembly at Columbia University, the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (Geneva), and the Institute for Global and International Studies at George Washington University.

SAVE THE DATE: August 25-27, 2011

American University Washington College of Law
4801 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington DC, 20016

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