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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Please be aware of the following upcoming SSGM seminar:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>The Winds of Change: Evolution & Flux in Intellectual Property Rights Models at Global & Local Levels<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Dr Miranda Forsyth - State, Society & Governance in Melanesia Program<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">3 - 4pm Tuesday 30 September<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Lecture Theatre 2, Hedley Bull Centre (130) Corner of Garran Rd & Liversidge St, ANU<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>Abstract:</b> This seminar will examine the current debates and stimulants for change around intellectual property rights models at both a global level and at local and regional levels in the Pacific islands
region. This discussion will be anchored in a case study of sustainable sea transport (a concept that encompasses a range of vessels from canoes to container ships), which responds to one of the most intractable developmental problems facing Oceanic countries.
It will destabilise the idea that there is only one model of intellectual property (the global proprietary rights model), and instead demonstrate that there are multiple models that are currently both in existence and being created, including customary systems
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Further, it will discuss how the applicability of these models are closely linked with the particular visions of development at play. Finally the paper will show how there are overlapping debates occurring at
both global and local levels about the appropriate balance between restricting access to intangible resources, such as knowledge and technology, and ensuring that those resources can be widely shared. As such, we see that many of the concerns surrounding local
bodies of knowledge, such as those concerned with celestial navigation and canoe rig design, overlap with global debates concerning emerging bodies of knowledge and technology, such as biogas auxillary motors and solar panel sails.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>About the Presenter:</b> Miranda Forsyth is a Fellow at SSGM in the College of Asia and Pacific at ANU. In February 2011 she commenced a three year ARC Discovery funded project to investigate the impact of
intellectual property laws on development in Pacific Island countries. Prior to coming to the ANU, Miranda was a senior lecturer in criminal law at the law school of the University of the South Pacific, based in Port Vila, Vanuatu for eight years.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Joel Nilon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">School of International, Political and Strategic Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">ANU College of Asia and the Pacific<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">The Australian National University
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Canberra ACT 0200<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">+61 2 6125 8394<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><a href="http://ips.cap.anu.edu.au/ssgm/"><span style="color:blue">http://ips.cap.anu.edu.au/ssgm/</span></a>
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