As far as I know, the conference has nothing to do with IP issues, so sorta weird for you to bring that up. Obsessed much?

More weasel words Masnick? I can’t imagine that one could avoid IP issues. Let’s see who putting on the show:

ACCESS (from it’s own website)

“Access is a global movement premised on the belief that political participation and the realization of human rights in the 21st century is increasingly dependent on access to the internet and other forms of technology. Founded in the wake of the 2009 Iranian post-election crackdown, Access teams with digital activists and civil society groups internationally to build their technical capacity and to help them advocate globally for their digital rights. Access provides thought leadership and practical policy recommendations in the broader field of internet freedom, and based on that expertise mobilizes its global movement of citizens to campaign for an open internet accessible to all.
Access’ Global Movement for Digital Freedom is made up of ordinary people from all over the world. Many of us are normal internet users without much experience in either human rights or technology, but we understand that technology can be a powerful platform which gives us all additional strength to achieve greater participation, accountability and transparency. Together we can work to help each other and maintain the internet as open space for all. Join us and you’ll receive action updates with easy ways to effect real change or take action with our campaigns.”

Next, let’s see who is paying the bill:

“The conference is sponsored by Google, Facebook, Skype, Yahoo! and Mozilla and held with partners in the civil society sector.”

And who will be preaching to the apologist choir

Andrew McLaughlin* (Founder Civic Commons, Former Deputy CTO Whitehouse, ex-Head of Policy, Google
Rebecca McKinnon, New America Foundation Bernard L. Schwartz, Fellow, Board Member Global Network Initiative
Dan Gillmor, Author, Founding director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University?s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Jan Malinowski, Head of Media and Information at Council of Europe
Bennett Freeman, Senior Vice President of Calvert Investments, former US Deputy Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
John Markoff, The New York Times
Robert Scoble, blogger, Chief Learning Officer, Rackspace
Craig Newmark, Founder, Craigslist
Sam Gregory, Program Director, Witness.org
Nathan Freitas, Founder, The Guardian Project
Hooman Radfar, CEO, Clearspring
Brett Solomon, Executive Director Access

Finally, who all is on the board of Access:

International Advisory Board

Andrew Rasiej – Founder of Personal Democracy Forum
Chris Hughes – Co-founder of Facebook and Director of Online Organizing for Obama?s Presidential Campaign
Eli Pariser – Former Executive Director and Current Board President of MoveOn.org
Ethan Zuckerman – Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Co-Founder of Global Voices Online
Joe Rospars – New Media Director for Obama?s 2008 Presidential Campaign and Founding Partner of Blue State Digital
Lawrence Lessig* – Co-founder of Creative Commons and Professor at Harvard Law School
Peter Gabriel – Grammy Award winning international musician and co-founder of Witness and the Elders
Reihan Salam – Policy advisor at Economics 21, blogger and conservative political analyst
Ricken Patel – Co-founder and Executive Director, Avaaz.org
Professor Ron Deibert – Director of the Citizen Lab, Co-founder of the OpenNet Initiative and Psiphon
Tattu Mambetallieva Emilbekovna – Director of the Civil Initiative on Internet Policy
Yvette J. Alberdingk Thijm – Executive Director, Witness

So you’re right Masnick. doubtful IP will come up at all.

* A real piece of shit.