Adelphi Charter
The Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property ( Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property) is the result of a project that was conducted on behalf of the Royal Society of Arts, London, and was intended to define a good intellectual property policy. The Charter was adopted on 13 October 2005.
As a result, it has influenced the reflection on the intellectual property legislation, in particular the statement Copyright for Creativity - A Declaration for Europe.
Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property
The Adelphi Charter reads in ( unauthorized ) translation:
The ability of humanity to bring forth new ideas and new knowledge is their greatest strength. It is the source of art, science, innovation and economic development. Without it, individuals and societies come to a standstill.
This creative ability needs access to ideas, knowledge acquisition and culture of other people of the present and the past. Similarly, the other use of what we have created in the future. Human rights challenge us to ensure that can use and disclose any information and knowledge so that individuals, groups and companies to reach their full potential.
Creativity and investment must be recognized and remunerated. An intellectual property legislation needs today and in the past the goal have to secure both the dissemination of knowledge as well as the reward for innovation.
The expansion of intellectual property law during the past 30 years has led to a legal practice that has lost any reasonable relationship to modern technological, economic and social developments. This breach threatens the creativity and innovation chain, from we and future generations depend.
Here, the public should be involved throughout and a comprehensive, objective and transparent assessment of public benefits and detriments are performed.
RSA, Adelphi, London, October 13, 2005
Authors
The Charter was drawn up by an international commission of experts in the fields of art, culture, human rights, law, economics, natural sciences and engineering, the public sector and the educational system.
Among the Commissioners were at the time of publication;
- Professor James Boyle - William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law, Duke Law School, and Faculty Co - Director, Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke University
- Lynne Brindley - Chief Executive, British Library
- Professor William Cornish - Former Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property University of Cambridge
- Carlos Correa - Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies on Industrial Property and Economics University of Buenos Aires, and the South Centre Switzerland
- Darius Cuplinskas - Director, Information Programs Open Society Institute
- Carolyn Deere - Chair, Board of Directors, Intellectual Property Watch; and Research Associate, Global Economic Governance Programme, University of Oxford and University College Oxford.
- Cory Doctorow - Staff Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation; and writer
- Bronac Ferran - Director, Interdisciplinary Arts Arts Council England
- Dr Michael Jubb - Director, UK Research Libraries Network
- Gilberto Gil - Minister of Culture, Brazil; and musician
- Professor Lawrence Lessig - Chair, Creative Commons; Professor of Law and John A. Wilson Distinguished Faculty Scholar Stanford Law School
- James Love - Executive Director, Consumer Project on Technology; and Co - Chair, Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD ) Committee on Intellectual Property
- Hector MacQueen - Professor of Private Law and Director, AHRB Research Centre on Intellectual Property and Technology Law, University of Edinburgh
- Professor John Naughton - Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology, Open University; Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge University; and columnist, ' The Observer '
- Vandana Shiva - physicist, philosopher, environmental activist and writer.
- Louise Sylvan - Deputy Chair, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Leader was John Howkins and research coordinator Jaime Stapleton.