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WIPO Conference Underlines Importance Of IP In Creative Industries,
by Ulrika Lomas, for LawAndTax-News.com, Brussels
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Participants at an international conference on the role of intellectual property
(IP) in the creative industries, hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO) on October 29-30, 2007, concluded by agreeing that intellectual property
(IP) is an essential element in harnessing the value and securing sustained
development in the creative industries.
Participants, who included ministers, high level policy makers, industry representatives
and leading musicians, artists, and academic and civil society representatives,
further underlined the need to promote better understanding of the role and
impact of IP on this sector.
Keynote statements were made at the International Conference on Creativity and
the Creative Industries by ministers of culture from Lebanon, Jamaica and Nigeria.
Over 20 presentations followed on various aspects of the creative industries.
The conference generated wide-ranging and interesting discussions on a broad
array of themes, including the concepts and origins of creativity, creativity
and IP in support of development, knowledge and cultural capital and the nexus
between IP and the creative industries. A panel was devoted to measurement issues,
and covered topics such as cultural economics as a tool for analysis, WIPO’s
experience in assessing the economic contribution of the creative industries,
as well as the creativity index.
Discussions addressed the place of the creative industries in the digital environment,
covering issues such as the international legal framework, the challenges of
protecting online content and the role of collective management in the digital
era. A segment also addressed the business of creativity and presented best
practices for innovative businesses using IP protection (music, book, film,
and on-line games industries) on all continents.
The conference additionally provided a forum for participants to express wide-ranging
perspectives and approaches to analyzing the growth potential of the creative
industries sector within a dynamic technological environment, while safeguarding
and promoting cultural identity and diversity.
It was widely recognized that IP is an essential element of the process, and
many participants underlined the need to further explore these issues, and to
generate empirical data to support the development of an enabling environment
that is conducive to the realization of the potential of the creative sector
as a driver of economic, social and cultural development.
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