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Access to Knowledge Conference Begins Addressing New Challenges with New Ideas (IP-Watch)

By Robin Gross

A key conference on access to knowledge opened Monday, with veterans of the A2K movement mixed with many new faces and all participants hoping to find new ideas over the next few days, as they seek to clarify the best paths forward. ?The great insight of this movement,? said Yale Law School Information Society Project Director Jack Balkin during the welcome address, ?was bringing together a wide range of people who didn?t even imagine that they were working on similar goals, dispersed as they were in their focus on health, science, movies, music, culture, telecommunications policy, innovation, fair competition, freedom of the press and transparency in governance.? The access to knowledge (A2K) movement, which emerged in the early 2000s, ?helped us to see we were all after the same things,? said Balkin, but ?precisely because of this success, [the movement] is at a crossroads.?...

Full post as published by IP Justice on September 09, 2008 (boomark / email).