the calendars
of celebrations and Ephemeris international, promoted by the Organization
of the United Nations, play a fundamental role as an instrument that generates
social conscience. Nobody questions the need to consecrate a day of
calendar each year to health, the fight against poverty, hunger,
diseases and violence. Who does not feel identified or, at least,
in solidarity with these causes?
of celebrations and Ephemeris international, promoted by the Organization
of the United Nations, play a fundamental role as an instrument that generates
social conscience. Nobody questions the need to consecrate a day of
calendar each year to health, the fight against poverty, hunger,
diseases and violence. Who does not feel identified or, at least,
in solidarity with these causes?
Today,
April 26, we celebrate world intellectual property day. The date
commemorates the entry into force of the World Health Organization Convention
Intellectual Property (WIPO Convention), 45 years ago.
April 26, we celebrate world intellectual property day. The date
commemorates the entry into force of the World Health Organization Convention
Intellectual Property (WIPO Convention), 45 years ago.
Certainly the
cause may be foreign to a large part of the population, for whom the
term "intellectual property» is synonymous with prohibitions,
licenses, censorship and other obstacles to the so-called cultural freedom of the era
digital. Even from a not so critical perspective, the term property
intellectual is capable of evoking concepts so foreign to the majority of
mortals such as laws, agreements, judges or a lot of
lawyers with ties defending the «big industries«. Maybe
It would have been more appropriate to talk about World Creativity Day,
innovation or culture. At least she would have had more "punch."
Because, without nooks and crannies, intellectual property is creativity,
It is innovation and it is culture. In the alarm clock that wakes us up to go to bed
office, in the music we listen to on the way to work, in the video clip that
we see on the subway screen, in the play that is advertised on the
bus shelter, in all programs, tools and applications that
They allow us to carry out our daily work, in the coffee maker that we
rescues us from the morning drowsiness, in the television series or in the book we pick up
before going to sleep... Behind all that there are musicians, artists,
programmers, engineers, actors, writers, producers, and… yes,
probably also a lot of judges, legislators and lawyers in ties trying
to save what remains of this stronghold, sometimes unfairly questioned, which
It is intellectual property.
cause may be foreign to a large part of the population, for whom the
term "intellectual property» is synonymous with prohibitions,
licenses, censorship and other obstacles to the so-called cultural freedom of the era
digital. Even from a not so critical perspective, the term property
intellectual is capable of evoking concepts so foreign to the majority of
mortals such as laws, agreements, judges or a lot of
lawyers with ties defending the «big industries«. Maybe
It would have been more appropriate to talk about World Creativity Day,
innovation or culture. At least she would have had more "punch."
Because, without nooks and crannies, intellectual property is creativity,
It is innovation and it is culture. In the alarm clock that wakes us up to go to bed
office, in the music we listen to on the way to work, in the video clip that
we see on the subway screen, in the play that is advertised on the
bus shelter, in all programs, tools and applications that
They allow us to carry out our daily work, in the coffee maker that we
rescues us from the morning drowsiness, in the television series or in the book we pick up
before going to sleep... Behind all that there are musicians, artists,
programmers, engineers, actors, writers, producers, and… yes,
probably also a lot of judges, legislators and lawyers in ties trying
to save what remains of this stronghold, sometimes unfairly questioned, which
It is intellectual property.
Author Patricia Mariscal
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