30.07.2001 – 09:06

OMPI / WIPO

WIPO-Organized meeting to probe electronic commerce and intellectual property

Geneva (ots)

Representatives from industry, governments and the
general public will meet in Geneva from September 19 to 21, 2001 to
discuss recent and future commercial and technological developments
in e-commerce and their impact on the intellectual property system.

The Conference, organized by the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO), will examine the principal impact of e-commerce
on the intellectual property system, and will cover issues including
creation, ownership, identity and governance on the Internet. Focus
will be on music, films and publishing on-line, domain names,
business methods patents, branding, rights management systems,
privacy, digital cultural heritage, and the influence of new
information technologies on intellectual property service delivery.

Speakers include government leaders and chief executives of major
corporations involved in e-commerce. For details of the program and
speakers see: http://ecommerce.wipo.int/meetings/2001/conference.

The Conference will be held at the International Conference Center
of Geneva (CICG), 15 rue de Varembé, 1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland. The
Conference is open for registration on-line via the web site.

The first such WIPO conference on e-commerce and intellectual
property, held in September 1999, promoted better understanding of
the relationship between e-commerce and the intellectual property
system. It led to the launch of WIPO's Digital Agenda, a plan of
action for adapting intellectual property to the digital age and to
the adoption by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN) of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy,
an expedited system for resolving domain name disputes. It confirmed
that intellectual property rights are of central importance in
maintaining a stable environment for the future development of
e-commerce.

Contact:

Media Relations and Public Affairs Section at WIPO
Phone +41 22 338 81 61 or 338 95 47
Fax +41 22 338 88 10
E-mail: publicinf@wipo.int