1. WIPO Global Meeting | 28 February 2016 Global Meeting on Emerging Copyright Licensing Modalities - Facilitating Access to Culture in the Digital Age World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Geneva, November 4 and 5, 2010

2. WIPO Global Meeting | 28 February 2016 Licensing and copyright at WHO: enabling access to health knowledge Najeeb Al-Shorbaji World Health Organization

3. WIPO Global Meeting 28 February 2016 3 |3 | WHO Constitution  The extension to all people of the benefits of medical, psychological and related knowledge is essential to the fullest attainment of health;  Informed opinion and active cooperation on the parts of the public are of the at most importance in the improvement of the health of the people.

4. WIPO Global Meeting 28 February 2016 4 |4 | Objective of WHO Copyright WHO exercises copyright over its published information in order to ensure that:  the Organization's aims, credibility, objectivity and independence are not compromised;  the Organization retains the right to use its information again in the future in whatever form or format it wishes; and  if necessary, the Organization may withdraw out-of-date or inaccurate information from circulation.

5. WIPO Global Meeting 28 February 2016 5 |5 | Purpose of WHO copyright The WHO copyright policy applies to all WHO health information materials. It is intended to:  help make WHO's information more accessible;  enable WHO to make its material available as and when it wishes.

6. WIPO Global Meeting 28 February 2016 6 |6 | Publishing and dissemination  Over 300 monographs per year;  Free distribution to developing countries;  Free access on the web;  Discounted prices for most countries;  Free CD-ROM and web access to WHO Bulletin;

7. WIPO Global Meeting 28 February 2016 7 |7 | Reuse and licensing of WHO publications  WHO encourages use of its information for research, education and use by governments, but not for the promotion of products, services, entities or philosophies because of the potential implication of endorsement by WHO.

8. WIPO Global Meeting 28 February 2016 8 |8 | Future developments  Articles published in the scientific press;  Conference papers;  Statistical data e.g. Global Health Observatory;  Open licensing initiatives and collaboration between WHO and WIPO.

9. WIPO Global Meeting 28 February 2016 9 |9 |  The HINARI Access to Research in Health programme provides free or very low cost online access to the major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, not-for-profit institutions in 109 developing countries.  HINARI was launched in 2001 and now has more than 4300 registered institutions that can access more than 7000 journals.  HINARI offers training of trainer courses to address information illiteracy.  HINARI and other Research for Life programmes cover Medicine, Agriculture and Environment in collaboration with FAO and UNEP. Public Private Partnership: HINARI hinari@who.int http://www.who.int/hinari

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11. WIPO Global Meeting | 28 February 2016 Thank you Q & A