Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property

How to ensure that everyone has access to ideas and knowledge, and that intellectual property laws do not become too restrictive.

The Charter sets out new principles for copyrights and patents, and calls on governments to apply a new public interest test.

It promotes a new, fair, user-friendly and efficient way of handing out intellectual property rights in the 21st century.

The Charter was written by an international group of artists, scientists, lawyers, politicians, economists, academics and business experts and published in October 2005.