• Access to Knowledge Treaty: the draft text, Dated May 9, 2005.

CPTech Documents and Related CPTech Pages

• November 30, 2005. James Love in the Huffington Post. A UN/WIPO Plan to Regulate Distribution of Information on the Internet.
• Archives of CPTech's online discussion on Access to Knowledge.
• CPTech page on the WIPO Development Agenda This includes the Geneva Declaration on the Future of WIPO, the Proposal by Argentina and Brazil for the Establishment of a Development Agenda for WIPO, and a number of background documents.
• Earlier Proposals for the Treaty on Access to Knowledge

• Contact information for people working on Access to Knowledge.

Meetings on the Development Agenda

• July 20-22, 2005. Meeting held in Geneva, hosted by WIPO. Third Inter-sessional Intergovernmental Meeting on a Development Agenda for WIPO.
• June 20-22, 2005. Meeting held in Geneva, hosted by WIPO. Second Inter-sessional Intergovernmental Meeting on a Development Agenda for WIPO.
• May 12-13, 2005. Workshop held in London, hosted by the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue. A Treaty on Access to Knowledge
• May 2-3, 2005. Meeting held in Geneva, hosted by WIPO. International Seminar on Intellectual Property and Development.
• April 14-15, 2005. Permanent Committee on Cooperation for Development Related to Intellectual Property : Fourth Session.
• April 11-13, 2005. Inter-sessional Intergovernmental Meeting on a Development Agenda for WIPO(IIM).

• Proposal for a Pro-Commons Blanket Clause. (Preamble)
• Proposal for Limitations and Exceptions to Copyright.
• Proposal for the Disabled and Visually Impaired Persons. See also the Summary and Quotes from World Blind Union Presentation at WIPO relevant to a2k treaty discussions.
• Proposal on Limitations and Exceptions to Copyrights on the Internet. (ISPs)
• Proposal on Library-Related Principles. (See also Richard Stallman's comments.)
• Proposal to Promote Open Access to Scientific and Scholarly Research Literature.
• Proposal on Digital Rights Management (DRM).
• Proposal for Requirement for Formalities When Copyright Term Exceeds TRIPS Requirements.
• Proposal for Additional Measures on Copyright Term.
• Proposal for Specific Provisions on Anti-Circumvention.
• Proposal for an Update of the Berne Appendix.
• Proposal for Distance Education.
• Proposal on collection society activities in developing countries.
• Proposal for the importation of educational, scientific and cultural materials.
• Proposal on Patents on Internet Standards.
• Proposeal for the Protocol for the Development of Open Standards.
• Proposal To Limit Patents Associated with Certain Public Good Databases.
• Proposal on issues related to the control of anticompetitive practices in contractual licenses.
• Proposal on Obligation to Finance Free and Open Public Knowledge Goods.
• Proposal for Access to Knowledge Watch List.

Other Documents

• Collections of Related Articles
• Third World Network. Humanizing intellectual property: Developing countries launch new initiative.
• Kent Law School, University of Kent. Copy South Project: Ongoing Annotated online bibliography.
• May 2006. Virginia Barbour, Paul Chinnock, Barbara Cohen, & Gavin Yamey. Editorial in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 84 (5). The Impact of Open Access Upon Public Health.
• September, 2005. Document signed by participants at the 9th World Congress on Health Information and Libraries. Salvador Declaration on Open Access: The Developing World Perspective.
• Statement signed by 26 Organizations and 77 Individuals. Towards a "World Intellectual Wealth Organisation" Supporting the Geneva Declaration.
• July, 2005. Commonwealth of Learning. Document for Commonwealth Countries on Copyright Matters in Education.
• September 24, 2003. Electrontic Frontieres Foundation. Unintended Consequences: Five Years under the DMCA.
• April 11, 2003. John Barton. Policy Dialogue on a Proposal for an International Science and Technology Treaty.

News Stories

• October 10, 2005. William New for IP-Watch (Translated by Pedro de Paranagu‡ Moniz). Software Livre e de Codigo Aberto Acordado em Preparacoes para a Cupula da Sociedade da Informacao da ONU
• October 2, 2005. James Kantor for the International Herald Tribune. The Idea Economy: Battle over right to sell knowledge.
• September 29, 2005. BBC. Sub-$100 laptop design unveiled.
• May 30, 2005. Natali Helberger for INDICARE. A2K: Access to Knowledge - Make It Happen.
• May 24, 2005. Larry Elliott for the Guardian. Mandelson warns on lobbyists' zeal.
• April, 2005. Peter Drahos in the BRIDGES Monthly Review. Access to Knowledge: Time for a Treaty?
• February 24, 2005. William New in IP-Watch. Experts Debate Access to Knowledge
• February 4, 2005. Martin Khor for SUNS (North-South Development Monitor). Offsetting IPRs' adverse effects on access to knowledge.
• February 2, 2005. Terry Wade for Reuters. Brazil Reshapes Debate on Intellectual Property.
• January 17, 2005. Michael Geist for the Toronto Star. Fairness calls for fairer rules.
• October 6, 2004. William New for National Review's Tech Daily. WIPO Agrees To Development Agenda.