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Panel: Public Domain Fosters Innovation, More Limitations & Exceptions Needed

By Intellectual Property Watch

The public domain is key to the promotion of innovation and should be fostered, but international intellectual property policies may hinder that process, said speakers at a side event to the last week?s meeting of the WIPO Committee on Development and Intellectual Property. Limitations and exceptions to copyright should be expanded and made mandatory, policymaking should be based on evidence and the public domain should be clearly defined and listed internationally, they said.

Full post as published by Intellectual Property Watch on May 08, 2009 (boomark / email).