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WIPO/CR/CAI/09/INF 2
ORIGINAL: English
DATE: October 29, 2009
ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT / WORLD INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY ORGANIZATION

AFRICAN-ARAB SEMINAR ON COPYRIGHT
LIMITATIONS AND EXCEPTIONS: Addressing the Needs of Affected Constituencies

organized by
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

in cooperation with
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Egypt
Cairo, November 2, 2009

List of Participants

prepared by the Secretariat

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I. MEMBER STATES

ALGERIA

Lounès ABDOUN, Directeur général adjoint, Office national des droit d'auteurs et droits voisins, Alger

BENIN

Thierry Arsène CODO, Directeur, Bureau béninois du droit d’auteur (BUBEDRA), Cotonou

BRAZIL

Samuel BARICHELLO CONCEIÇÃO, Coordenação-Geral de Regulação em Direitos Autorais, Ministry of Culture, Brasilia

JORDAN

Hala Haddadin (Ms.), Legal Advisor, Department of the National Library, Amman

KENYA

Edward Kiplangat SIGEI, Chief Legal Officer, Kenya Copyright Board, Nairobi

LEBANON

Ghada SAFAR (Ms.), Intellectual Property Expert, Ministry of Economy and Trade, Beirut, Lebanon

NIGERIA

Adewole Adisa ADEDEJI, Deputy Director, Special Assistant to Director General, Nigeria Copyright Commission, Abuja

SENEGAL

Mbircosse PAYE, Directeur, Département de la documentation et reproduction, Bureau sénégalais du droit d’auteur (BSDA), Dakar

SOUTH AFRICA

Lucy Masabatha MAHLANGU (Ms.), Director, Multilateral and Resourcing,

Department of Arts and Culture, Pretoria

SUDAN

Mousa Hassan Ismiel DIGAS, Deputy of Copyright Section, Federal Council of Literary and artistic Works, Khartoum

SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC

Yahea NADDAF, Director, Directorate of Copyright, Ministry of Culture, Damascus

II. INTERNATIONAL STAKEHOLDERS

Jens BAMMEL, Secretary General, International Publishers Association (IPA), Geneva

Nicolaas FAASEN, Uitgewersbestuurder, Taalsentrum Publishing Manager, Language Centre, Nasou Via Afrika, Cape Town, South Africa

George KERSCHER, Secretary-General, Daisy Consortium, Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D), Missoula (Montana), United States of America

Tarja KOSKINEN OLSSON (Ms.), International Advisor, International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO), Helsinki

Pablo LECUONA, Founder and Director, Tiflolibros, Buenos Aires

Pedro MILLIET, Senior Developer & Information Architect, Dorina Nowill Foundation for the Blind, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Irene MUTHONI (Ms.), Director, Kenya National Library Service (KNLS), Nairobi

Judit RIUS SANJUAN (Ms.), Advisor, World Blind Union, Washington D.C.

III. SPEAKERS

Bassem AWAD, Chief Judge, Egyptian Ministry of Justice, Cairo

Hassan BADRAWY, Assistant Minister of Justice, Cairo

Ahmed BEDEIR, International Publishers Association, Cairo

Maha BEKHEIT (Ms.), Director of IP unit, League of Arab States, Cairo

Mohammed EL SAID, Lecturer in International Trade Law, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom

Hala ESSALMAWI (Ms.), IPR Officer, Library of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt

Chris FRIEND, World Blind Union (WBU), Strategic Objective Leader Accessibility; Chair, Global Right to Read Campaign; Programme Development Advisor Sightsavers International, London

Henning GROSSE RUSE – KHAN, Max Planck Institute, Munich, Germany

Mohamed HEGAZY, Manager, Intellectual Property Office, Information Technology Industry Development Agency, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Cairo

Dipendra MANOCHA, Director, Regional Resource Centre, Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) Consortium, New Delhi

Denise NICHOLSON (Ms.), Librarian, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesbourg,

Olav STOKKMO, International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO), Brussels

Hannu WAGER, Counsellor, Intellectual Property Division, World Trade Organization, Geneva

IV. EGYPTIAN AUTHORITIES

Ambassador Naela GABR, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Egypt, Cairo

Mohamed NOUR FARAHAT, Director of Copyright Protection Office, Cairo

V. WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION (WIPO)

Sherif SAADALLAH, Executive Director, Department of External Relations

Swashpawan SINGH, former Ambassador of India, WIPO Director General’s Honorary Advisor on the Visually Impaired Persons (VIP) initiative

Amr ABDELAZZIZ, Senior Program Officer, Technical Assistance and Capacity Building Bureau for Arab Countries

Geidy LUNG (Ms.), Senior Legal Officer, Copyright Law Division

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