Happy WIPO Day!
p2pnet view P2P | Freedom | Politics:- April 26th has come and gone, and with it went “World Intellectual Property Day”! (huh?!)
Established by the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) back in 2000, it celebrates it’s 11th anniversary today, with this year’s theme being “Designing the Future“.
From the WIPO website…
The aims of World IP Day are:
- to raise awareness of how patents, copyright, trademarks and designs impact on daily life;
- to increase understanding of how protecting IP rights helps promote creativity and innovation;
- to celebrate creativity, and the contribution made by creators and innovators to the development of societies across the globe;
- to encourage respect for the IP rights of others.
Strangely enough I was unable to find any WIPO day themed cards when I visited the Hallmark isle at my local drug store. I guess grandma will have to settle for a generic “happy holidays” card this year.
The passing of World IP Day also marks the end of “a contest to name the best short film about copyright protection.” (Click on the MediaCaster link, if you’re in the mood for a sick laugh.)
Otis – p2pnet
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April 28th, 2011 at 12:33 am
Yeah, patents really encourage innovation. Like what individual wants to spend time and money to actually INVENT something, only to find out some lawyer patent troll with no engineering degree who couldn’t build or design a matchstick house has already patented the idea? (sans schematics, blueprints, cad ect, JUST the idea) I wonder who holds the patent on the warp drive and the replicator?