World Intellectual Property Day
WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROTECTION DAY IS a DAY OF INDELLECTUAL PROTECTION.
Every April 26, we observe World Intellectual Property Day to learn more about the role that intellectual property (IP) rights play in encouraging innovation and creativity. On Capitol Hill, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) sponsors a commemoration of World Intellectual Property Day.
People and businesses have the right to the information and intellectual goods they produce under the control of the law protecting creative intangible creative products.
What is intellectual property theft? What is intellectual property theft?
You know how to take someone's tangible property, such as a car or money, from someone else's house. Did you know that taking someone's intangible property, such as a song, story, photograph, or artwork, is against the law? Imagine you write the song that you performed to a group of friends. One of them records the song and publishes it without giving you credit. They may be found guilty of stealing your intellectual property.
It's impossible to protect intellectual property rights. Unlike traditional property, intellectual property is indivisible – an infinite number of people can "consume" an intellectual property without it being depleted. Although a landowner can surround their property with a strong fence and deploy armed guards to shield it, a writer of information or an intellectual good can often do nothing to discourage their first purchaser from reproducing it and selling it at a lower price.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica_v._Inc. In 2000, between the rock band Metallica and the music-sharing website Napster, Inc., one of the most famous intellectual property disputes was settled. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica_v._Napster,_Inc.
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History
"To raise awareness of how patents, copyright, logos, and designs influence daily life" and "to honor ingenuity, contribution made by designers and innovators to the global development of societies.
The Paris Convention for Industrial Property Rights and the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works provided for the establishment of a "International Bureau" in 1883 and 1886, respectively.
