Statement of Purpose

To raise the awareness of a wide array of public audience on the relationship between Intellectual Property (IP) and development on the international level, with a special focus on Access to Knowledge, for the purposes of promoting innovation and creativity and stimulating the development of an inclusive knowledge society in the Arab world.

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"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." James Madison

Important Links

Accessible Books Consortium

Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights: Thirty-Second Session

Fair Use Week

The Fourth Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest

WIPO Re:Search

Creative Commons Global Summit 2015

State of the Commons

World Education Forum 2015

The 2015 Intellectual Property

The Hague Declaration on Knowledge Discovery in the Digital Age

Global Library and Archives Community welcomes new report from United Nations Special Rapporteur on Copyright Policy and the Right to Science and Culture

IFLA links for Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives

WIPO Studies on Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives

Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled

Book: Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property

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Latest News

Innovation and the Global Expansion of Intellectual Property Rights: Unfulfilled Promises

South Centre Research Paper No. 70

Author: Carlos M. Correa

The incorporation of intellectual property into trade agreements has not proven to bring about the promised benefits. The premises that have underpinned the global strengthening and expansion of intellectual property through such agreements – namely that the same standards of protection are suitable for countries with different levels of development and that innovation will be boosted – do not match the reality.

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