IGF

The 2010 Internet Governance Forum will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania. For more information see the official site.

Consumers International and the African Copyright and A2Kⁱ Project (ACA2K) this week held a successful workshop looking at the Global State of Copyright and Access to Knowledge at the 2009 meeting of the multi-stakeholder United Nations Internet Governance Forum in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. The session was moderated by Dr Bassem Awad from ACA2K, who is also Chief Judge at the Egyptian Ministry of Justice.

Here is a brief roundup (with links to further information) on some of the most important and interesting topics on the copyrightⁱ and A2Kⁱ radar this month:

The intellectual property system is often portrayed as a battleground in which the creators of content are pitted against lawless "counterfeiters" and "pirates". Multinational media companies have relied on this perception in order to push governments for stronger and yet stronger intellectual property (or IPⁱ) protection in both domestic and international law - a trend which shows no signs of abating.