Dialogue on internet content and intellectual property
SEMINAR: The ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA), which functions
under the President's Office, together with the National Intellectual
Property Office of Sri Lanka (NIPO), Outstanding Song Creators
Association (OSCA), the ICT sector in Sri Lanka both industry and
academia, and several other sponsors, have taken steps to initiate a
dialogue on a series of topics based on the deployment of content over
the Internet and relevant Intellectual Property Rights issues.
This dialogue would be facilitated through a series of lectures and
seminars to be conducted in Sri Lanka by Prof Lawrence Lessig, Professor
of Law of the Stanford Law School of Stanford University and a world
renown authority on Cyber Law (www.lessig.org), who would be in Sri
Lanka on the invitation of ICTA on May 22 and 23, 2006.
The areas of expertise on which Prof Lessig would speak would include
Intellectual Property Rights and Software issues (including Open Source
Licensing), future trends in Information and Communication policy and
Internet content deployment.
Sri Lanka has an advanced Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) regime
based on the Intellectual Property Act No. 36 of 2003. An element of IPR
(Copyright protection) has traditionally been viewed as offering an
incentive for the production of artistic, scientific, and other creative
content, while permitting the public to access, use and innovate with
such creative works.
The Internet and other global information technologies have opened
new opportunities for the creation, distribution, and use of creative
content.
To maximise the potential of and to promote such activity a unique
licensing regime known as the Creative Commons Licence has been
established.
Keynote address on "Foss and Open Content will be at Foss-Ed at
ExcelWorld on May 22 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., while the public lecture
on "A Way Forward for Emerging Economies through Creativity in ICT" will
be at Hotel Galadari on May 22 from 5 p.m.
The public lecture on "Software, Intellectual Property Management and
Internet Content Deployment" will be held at the Trans Asia Hotel, on
May 23. |