Educación Permanente en la FIC – Propiedad intelectual y Derecho de Autor

Difundimos información sobre curso de educación permanente de la Facultad de Información y Comunicación sobre el Derecho de Autor y sus implicancias en nuestro quehacer.

La Propiedad Intelectual, el Derecho de Autor y la imagen humana frente al Derecho. Una mirada desde y para las prácticas en la Ciencia de la Información y la Comunicación
Docentes: Djamila Romani y Daniela Menoni
Comienzo: 5/8/2020 | Finalización: 30/9/2020
Formato: A distancia
Precio total: $2400
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Propiedad Intelectual y pandemia – Carta abierta al Director General de la OMPI

Las leyes de propiedad intelectual buscan un equilibrio entre los beneficios para el creador o propietario, y la sociedad en su conjunto. En un momento donde todos los habitantes del planeta nos encontramos indefectiblemente ante el mismo problema, la búsqueda colectiva de las soluciones (prevención, diagnóstico y cura) muestra la importancia del beneficio colectivo.

El texto está más abajo. La carta, con todos los signatarios, está adjunta. 

Dr Francis Gurry, 
Director General, 
World Intellectual Property Organization, 
34, Chemin des Colombettes, 
CH-1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland

3 April 2020

Dear Dr Gurry,

We write to you as organisations and individuals representing researchers, educators, students, and the institutions that support them, to encourage WIPO to take a clear stand in favour of ensuring that intellectual property regimes are a support, and not a hindrance, to efforts to tackle both the Coronavirus outbreak and its consequences.

The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a bright light on how important intellectual property limitations and exceptions can be to development and human flourishing. Researchers discovered the spread of the virus through a text and data mining project analysing copyrighted news articles1 , enabled by Canada’s flexible fair dealing right for research purposes. The earliest potential treatments have been developed through existing medicines, enabled by experimental use exceptions to patent rights.

Now, schools, universities, libraries, archives, museums and research institutes across the world, forced to close their buildings, are transferring materials online and providing remote access, but only where copyright laws permit. However, these and other critical activities to overcome the crisis are not being performed everywhere – including where subscriptions have been paid in advance – because they are not lawful everywhere.

We have seen helpful steps from a number of countries, and from some right holders themselves, to facilitate access to academic articles and other works, educational and cultural materials, research data, chemical libraries, and needed medicines and medical devices that are subject to intellectual property rights. These steps are to be lauded. But much more is needed. And WIPO can help lead the way.

We urge you to use your position as the leader of the global intellectual property system to take urgent action to guide Member States and others in their response to intellectual property issues that the coronavirus is raising. These steps should include:

• Encouraging all WIPO member states to take advantage of flexibilities in the international system that permit uses of intellectual property-protected works for online education, for research and experimental uses, and for vital public interests, such as access to medicine and culture;

• Calling on all right holders to remove licensing restrictions that inhibit remote education, research (including for text and data mining and artificial intelligence projects) and access to culture, including across borders, both to help address the global pandemic, and in order to minimise the disruption caused by it;

• Supporting the call by Costa Rica for the World Health Organization to create a global pool of rights in COVID-19 related technology and data, as well as promoting the use of the Medicines Patents Pool, voluntary licensing, intellectual property pledges, compulsory licensing, use of competition laws, and other measures to eliminate barriers to the competitive global manufacture, distribution and sale of potentially effective products to detect, prevent, and treat COVID-19;

• Supporting countries’ rights to enact and use exceptions to trade secret and other intellectual property rights needed to facilitate greater access to manufacturing information, cell lines, confidential business information, data, software, product blueprints, manufacturing processes, and other subject matter needed to achieve universal and equitable access to COVID-19 medicines and medical technologies as soon as reasonably possible.

We believe that WIPO through your leadership can show its commitment to achieving sustainable development by taking swift and clear action to ensure that the global intellectual property system promotes research, education, access to culture, and public health.

Yours sincerely,


Declaración “Motores para el cambio: Primer Encuentro Iberoamericano sobre Derecho de Autor y Tratado de Marrakech”

Los líderes de las Bibliotecas Nacionales y Parlamentarias de 15 países de América Latina: Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Panamá, Paraguay, Uruguay y Venezuela, y España representada por la Presidenta Electa de IFLA, se reúnen en la Biblioteca del Congreso de la Nación Argentina en la ciudad de Buenos Aires, los días 28 y 29 de octubre del 2015, en el seminario internacional “Motores para el Cambio: Primer Encuentro Iberoamericano sobre Derecho de Autor y Tratado de Marrakech”, organizado por la IFLA (Federación Internacional de Asociaciones de Bibliotecarios y Bibliotecas) y la Biblioteca del Congreso de la Nación Argentina con el objetivo de debatir sobre la necesidad de actualizar las normas nacionales e internacionales del Derecho de Autor que garanticen el cumplimiento de la misión de las Bibliotecas y Archivos hacia sus usuarios y la sociedad en general.

En esta oportunidad, se comparte el estado de situación en sus respectivos países, en torno al acceso a materiales para las personas con discapacidades, así como también se analizan las barreras y riesgos que las bibliotecas enfrentan día a día, por la carencia de una regulación equilibrada en el ámbito de la propiedad intelectual, que les provea de apropiadas excepciones y limitaciones sobre Derecho de Autor.

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