The Licensing Executives Society International (LESI) held recently a cycle of meetings of the Board of Directors and the Council of Heads of the national societies members of LESI as well as the chairmen of the working committees, in Miami, Florida, United States of America.
Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh represented the Arab region as being the President of the Licensing Executives Society-Arab Countries (LES-AC), which its membership includes public and private sectors experts from the member states of the League of Arab States, and which had joined LESI in 1998.
The cycle of meetings included a workshop on licenses in e-commerce, and also the annual conference of the American-Canadian Society. The American-Canadian Society is the largest member Society and LESI’s Headquarters where its members represent half of the total members of LESI, which are more than ten thousand law, technical, industry and trade expert , and they form a communication network for the transfer of technology over the world.
Mr. Abu-Ghazaleh, during the workshop, talked about licenses in e-commerce, stressing that the time has come to develop a mechanism to link the real world and the virtual world which is known as “The cyberspace”. He added that we should deal with them in terms of laws, rights and obligations as associates of one world, and that we must shift from the current situation which deals with them independently ignoring the contradiction and conflict resulting from that.