EUROPEAN ART AND CULTURE BETWEEN FREE TRADE AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY. A DELICATE DIALOGUE?

 

Date: 15 -16 December 2006

 

Venue: High Tech Centre, Helsinki, Tammasaarenkatu 1-7, located in the district of Ruoholahti.

 

 

GLOSSARY

GATS

 

The WTO’s General Agreement on Trade in Services

 

GATT

 

The WTO’s General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

 

Cultural diversity

 

“Cultural diversity” refers to the manifold ways in which the cultures of groups and
societies find expression. These expressions are passed on within and among groups and societies. Cultural diversity is made manifest not only through the varied ways in which the cultural heritage of humanity is expressed, augmented and transmitted through the variety of cultural expressions, but also through diverse modes of artistic creation, production, dissemination, distribution and enjoyment, whatever the means and technologies used.

UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions

 

Cultural exception

 

Difference between industrial goods and services and artistic goods and services

 

Free trade

 

Free trade of goods and services between countries

 

MAI

 

Multilateral Agreement on Investment

 

TRIPS

 

Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights

 

UNESCO

 

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

 

WIPO

 

World Intellectual Property Organization

 

WTO

 

World Trade Organisation

 

 

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