Access to knowledge movement

The Access to Knowledge (A2K) movement is a loose collection of civil society groups, governments, and individuals converging on the idea that access to knowledge should be linked to fundamental principles of justice, freedom, and economic development.

1 Treaty
2 See also
3 References
4 External links
- 4.1 Portals
- 4.2 Overviews

[edit] Treaty

The goals of Access to Knowledge are embodied in a draft treaty, emerging from a call from Brazil and Argentina for a development agenda for the World Intellectual Property Organization.^[1] The treaty is intended to ease the transfer of knowledge to developing nations, and to secure the viability of open innovation systems all over the world.^[2]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

Draft Text of the A2K Treaty
Bollier, David. "A New Treaty to Assure 'Access to Knowledge'?", On the Commons, Feb. 8, 2005. Accessed April 23, 2007.
New, William. "Experts Debate Access to Knowledge", IP Watch, Feb. 15, 2005. Accessed April 23, 2007.
"Convergence of movements to fight IPRs on information", Seedling, 2005. Accessed April 23, 2007.

[edit] External links

[edit] Portals

Consumer Project on Technology's A2K resources
Seed's Freedom from IPR
Yale Law School A2K Research Program
A2K Brazil
A2K Derechos Digitales (Chile) (Spanish)
Bibliotheca Alexandrina's A2K Portal (English/Arabic)
Consumers International's A2Knetwork.org

[edit] Overviews

v ' d ' e Intellectual property reform activism

Issues and debates	Copyright infringement – Criticism of intellectual property – Criticism of patents – Digital rights management – Gripe site – Mashup videos and music – Public domain – Software patent debate

Concepts	All rights reversed – Copyleft – Commercial use of copyleft works – Commons-based peer production – Free content – Free software licence – Infoanarchism – Libertarian positions – Open content – Open design – Open patent – Open source hardware – Open source software – Share-alike

Movements	Access to Knowledge movement – Anti-copyright – Cultural environmentalism – Free culture movement – Free software movement

Organizations	Creative Commons – Electronic Frontier Foundation – Free Software Foundation – The Pirate Bay – Piratbyrån – Pirate Party – Students for Free Culture

Documentaries	Steal This Film (2006, 2007) – Good Copy Bad Copy (2007) – RiP!: A Remix Manifesto (2008)

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