TRANS ATLANTIC CONSUMER DIALOGUE
DIALOGUE TRANSATLANTIQUE
DES CONSOMMATEURS
Global Access to Essential Learning Tools
April 5th, 2004
8:30AM - 5:00PM
Level B Auditorium
At the Ford Foundation, 320 East 43rd Street, New York, New York
Sponsored by the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue, Working Group on Intellectual Property
Supported by the Rockefeller Foundation
This workshop is hosted by the Transatlantic Consumer's Dialogue(TACD)
Intellectual Property Committee and will be held at the Ford Foundation in New York City
on April 5, 2004 with support from the Rockefeller Foundation.
The Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD), is an association of 65 consumer
organizations from the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) which
develops and advocates joint consumer policy recommendations to the
US government and European Union to promote the consumer interest in EU and US
policy making.
This meeting will focus on the relationship between intellectual property rules
and access to a broad range of essential education and learning tools.
Agenda
Speakers and Biographies
Background and Objectives
Hotel: To take advantage of a group rate at the Radisson Lexington
in New York,
please contact
Toni Rabin
before March 15th, 2004.
Radisson Lexington
To register please email the following to
register@cptech.org
- Title
- Affiliation
- Mailing Address
- Telephone and Fax
- Email
Participants include:
Allan Adler (Association of American Publishers),
Prue Adler
(Association of Research Libraries), Greg Babyak (Bloomberg LP), Collette Caine
(Consumer Institute),
Michelle Childs (Consumer Consultant), Christopher Chiu (ACLU), Kenneth Crews
(University of Indiana),
Merriah
Fairchild (CalPIRG), Benedicte Federspiel (Danish Consumer Council),
Anna Fielder (Consumer's International),
Vera Franz (Soros Foundation),
Jean Claude Guedon (University of Montreal), Gwen Hinze (Electronic
Frontier Foundation), Jean Halloran (Consumer's Union),
Peter Jaszi (AU Washington College of Law), Rhoda Karpatkin (Consumer's Union)
Inge Kaul (UNDP), Ahmed Latif (Permanent Mission of Egypt, Geneva), Todd Larson
(World Intellectual Property Organization), Becky Lentz (Ford Foundation), James Love
(Consumer Project on Technology), Mark McCabe (Georgia Institute of Technology),
Eben Moglen (Columbia University), Robert
Oakley (Georgetown University Law Center), Ruth Okediji (University of Minnesota),
Pierre Ouedraogo (INTIF), Richard Owens (World Intellectual Property Organization)
Hon. Marybeth Peters (Library of Congress), Sothi Rachagan (Consumer's International),
Suzanne Stoll (World Intellectual Property Organization),
Alan Story (Kent )
Machiel Van Der Velde (Consumentenbond), Harold Varmus (Nobel Prize Winner, Medicine 1989, Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, PLoS), Luis Villarroel (Ministry of Education, Chile),
Raquel Xalabarder (Open University of Catalonia)
TACD Secretariat, 24 Highbury Crescent, London N5 1RX, UK
Tel : (+44) 207 226 6663 Fax : (+44) 207 354 0607 email : tacd@consint.org Website : www.tacd.org
The Steering Committee/Le comité directeur : EU/UE : Anna Bartolini,
Felix Cohen, Benedicte Federspiel,
Jim Murray US/Etats-Unis : Jean Ann Fox,
Rhoda Karpatkin, Ed Mierzwinski, Lori Wallach