WIPO and Access to Content: The Development Agenda and the Public Domain

Mr Owens' presentation will describe the formulation of copyright policy at WIPO - stakeholders and issues; legal, technology and market concerns. It will address particularly the process that delivered the WIPO Development Agenda (DA), and conclude by assessing elements of the planned WIPO work program to implement the two DA Recommendations (16 and 20) that address the public domain, including access to publicly-funded information.