I'm participating Monday and Tuesday at a conference on The Politics and Idealogy of Intellectual Property in Brussels, Belgium. The conference speakers and issues are worldwide in scope; it is sponsored by the PIRG-backed Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD): From the brochure:

In recent years, intellectual property policy issues have gained higher profiles in Europe and the United States, as debates over patenting of software and business methods, copyright term extensions, the public domain nature of the Human Genome Project, access to medicine, peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, and other hot button issues have attracted a wide public audience...In particular, the meeting will examine how the struggles over the control and ownership of the new knowledge economy relates to our concepts of ideology, in party political positions platforms and political rhetoric.