Policy Forum Ideas

Policy Forum Ideas, 2010/2011

1. Privacy and social networking

2. Use of social media by various federal agencies

3. Access to software: Garage Band, Logic, and issues of rights in relation to the use of “loops” and the reconfiguration of exiting materials

4. Learn about Smithsonian Folkways Records as a “museum of sound”

5. What constraints are being developed within WIPO around “traditional cultural expression?”
Are there – should there be – exceptions for libraries, museums, and educators?

6. Access to Apple and the I-Phone

7. How do we encourage innovation, by advancing exclusivity or openness?

8. The GAO study of the cost of international “piracy” of music and film – the OECD report. What limitations or exceptions promote the arts and grow the arts economy?

9. What incentives do countries have to adhere to a copyright regime?

10. Stages of economic development related to importance of copyright protection

11. How does the life-cycle of an artistic career relate to the life-cycle of copyright protection?

12. Do we know what the public thinks about protection for intellectual property, including arts, pharmaceuticals, fashion, etc.?

13. How do we get cultural knowledge/input into mainstream law and court action?

14. The OAS is about to abolish educational and cultural programming. Who can speak for the US in regard to this policy change?

15. Creativity and privacy

16. How do we build cultural leadership in the cultural area?

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