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- Could you introduce yourself and say your area of expertise please?
- Sure, my name is Susan Chalmers and I'm policy lead for Internet NZ.
- My question for you is: the multistakeholder approach, is that appropriate for IP discussion?
- I think it's appropriate and I think it needs to be encouraged so we've been talking about
multistakeholderism a lot here at the Internet Governance Forum in terms of Internet governance.
I think that we can learn a lot of lessons from that approach
in the intellectual property environment, because at present civil society and academia in my opinion
don't have nearly enough of a part of the whole process of creating these laws and I think if we had
included, or if we sought to include these sectors of society, then we'd get to see enrichment
of the laws and policies in copyright and the Internet that is currently missing.
So I think that free trade agreements which are arising in standards of intellectual property
outside of what we find at these inter-governmental fora, on a selective basis, it's a very difficult thing
because they are completely closed off and we're not able to participate in the laws under which
we actually have to operate as a society, so I think really we need to be able to broaden that
approach which would mean doing that through multistakeholder models.
- Great, thank you very much.