Copyright Review Commission Report - ICT Law and Regulation ...

The CTS director, Prof. Paranagua, has served as the chairperson of iCommons International, giving the work of the CTSinternational exposure. The CTS further created a group to provide legal support for free and open-source software research.The centre further organised a national contest for research projects dealing with practical problems connected to freesoftware businesses. The winners were sponsored to write papers dealing with these practical issues. The contest attractedimpressive candidates from all over the country.Another programme (Culture Livre or Free Culture), funded by the Ford Foundation, aims to build a ‘Southern’ dialogue andperspectives on culture, media and IP. One of its objectives is to monitor the WIPO Development Agenda and to put intopractice alternative IP licensing models. It is a joint project between CTS in Brazil and the University of the Witwatersrand’sLearning Information Networking and Knowledge Centre in South Africa. The project has managed to bring Brazilian andSouth African artists together to promote the exchange of content.The FGV/CTS became the first academic institution from the global south to have permanent accreditation before WIPOsince 2005, participating regularly in WIPO meetings, with Prof. Pedro Paranagua as Brazil’s representative at WIPO.Other activities of the CTS include: Publishing academic books; Doing applied research; Teaching graduate and post-graduate level courses; Delivering training to patent and trademark examiners; Writing accessible articles for magazines, newspapers, and Internet blogs; Giving interviews to radio and television channels; Training judges and military officials; and Delivering lecturers to a variety of stakeholders, including the Supreme Court of Brazil.The CTS works on the basis of the principle that informing all walks of Brazilian society is necessary to ensure effectivedebate on IP issues (Pedro Paranagua, Strategies to Implement Wipo’s Development Agenda: A Brazilian Perspective andBeyond). The Internet has been used effectively to provide ordinary citizens with access to knowledge about IP.2. FRANCE2.1. INTRODUCTIONFrance was selected because French copyright law was developed in the 18 th century, at the same time as copyright wasdeveloped in the UK. Based on the ‘right of the author’ instead of ‘copyright’, the philosophy and terminology of Frenchcopyright law is different from that in common law jurisdictions.The French law defines two distinct sets of rights: Proprietary rights, and Moral rights.- 131 -