World Intellectual Property Day

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The World Intellectual Property Day (also World IP Day or WIP Day called, English World Intellectual Property Day ) is the since 2000 World Intellectual Property Organization declared (WIPO), the importance of the rights of intellectual property - such as patents , trademarks To clarify , product designs , copyrights - for promoting innovation and creativity . The day, originally proposed by UNESCO, takes place every year on April 26th . On this day, in 1970, the WIPO founding agreement ( Convention ) came into force. Events on the topic of intellectual property take place worldwide on the day of action.

Main topics

World Day is devoted to a thematic focus every year.

  • 2001 Inventors and cultural workers: Creating the Future Today
  • 2002 Creativity: Encouraging Creativity
  • 2003 Economy: Making IP your Business
  • 2004 Development: the Importance of IP for Economic, Social and Cultural Development
  • 2005 Inspiration for young people: Think, imagine, create
  • 2006 Ideas: IP - It Starts with an Idea
  • 2007 Intellectual Property and Creativity: The Link Between IP and Creativity
  • 2008 Protection of intellectual property: Celebrating Innovation and Respecting IP
  • 2009 Environmentally friendly technology: Promoting Green Innovation as the key to a Secure Future
  • 2010 Networking: Innovation - Linking the World
  • 2011 Designer: Designing the Future
  • 2012 Inventor: Visionary Innovators
  • 2013 Creativity: Creativity - The Next Generation
  • 2014 Film: Movies - A Global Passion
  • 2015 Music: Get up, stand up. For music.
  • 2016 Digital Creativity - Digital Creativity: Culture Reimagined
  • 2017 Innovation: Innovation - Improving Lives
  • 2018 Women: Powering change: Women in innovation and creativity
  • 2019 Sport: Reach for Gold: IP and Sports
  • 2020 Environment: Innovate for a green future

Political initiatives and statements on the occasion of World Day

In a video message on World Intellectual Property Day in 2008, German Chancellor Angela Merkel promised her support in the fight against illegal pirated copies from the Internet. She will also work for the protection of intellectual property at international level. “Pirated copies are no trivial offense,” she said. She responded to an open letter in which around 200 well-known artists had asked for greater protection of intellectual property from her. The then Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann called for voluntary agreements between providers and rights holders to combat so-called Internet piracy based on the French model, an indirect demand for Internet blocking in the event of copyright infringements . The then Federal Minister of Justice Brigitte Zypries spoke out in favor of greater respect for intellectual property and welcomed measures against software and product piracy .

In 2010, Minister of State for Culture Neumann invited top representatives from the world of culture and said that “massive copyright infringements on the Internet” were still causing difficulties for the culture and creative industries. At the same time, he called on these industries to “see the Internet even more than before, not only as a risk, but also as an opportunity”.

The President of the Austrian Patent Office, Friedrich Rödler , said on the occasion of World Intellectual Property Day in 2014: “Especially in times of globalization , the protection of intellectual property is more important than ever. Effective legal protection helps innovative companies to secure existing and future sales markets and to take action against unfair competition or product piracy "

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Questions and answers about World IP Day on wipo.int
  2. ↑ Oliver Passek: For the second time "Intellectual Property Day" on irights.info
  3. ^ University of Düsseldorf: World Intellectual Property Day , April 24, 2003.
  4. ^ Announcement of the Copyright Initiative for the "World Intellectual Property Day" , April 26, 2017.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m World Intellectual Property Day Archives
  6. ↑ World Intellectual Property Day 2017: Movies - A Global Passion
  7. ↑ World Intellectual Property Day 2017: Get up, stand up. For music.
  8. ↑ World Intellectual Property Day 2017: Digital Creativity: Culture Reimagined
  9. ↑ World Intellectual Property Day 2017: Innovation - Improving Lives
  10. ↑ World Intellectual Property Day 2018: Powering change: Women in innovation and creativity
  11. ↑ World Intellectual Property Day 2019: Reach for Gold: IP and Sports
  12. ↑ World Intellectual Property Day 2020: Innovate for a Green Future
  13. ↑ Video podcast “Merkel: Doing more to protect intellectual property” on bundeskanzlerin.de
  14. ↑ Merkel: pirated copies are no trivial offense. In: Der Tagesspiegel . April 26, 2008.
  15. ↑ a b Heise online : Minister of State for Internet blocking in the event of copyright infringements. April 25, 2008.
  16. ↑ Press release: Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann on "World Intellectual Property Day" , April 26, 2010.
  17. ^ President of the Patent Office Rödler on innovations and innovation protection as the foundation of our future at patentamt.at, April 24, 2014.