Hello and welcome back to Arts & Culture.
As you can see, today is 'World Intellectual Property Day', celebrated every year on April 26, to raise awareness and understanding of Intellectual Property ('creations of the mind...inventions, literary and artistic works, designs, symbols, names commercial images' - from: http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/). The World Intellectual Property Organization has been in existence since 1970, holds events, workshops and training sessions all around the world, and runs an awards program to highlight and encourage creativity and innovative thinking If you click on this link you can visit their website, which is brimming with information, links to events and a free magazine you can subscribe to.
As bloggers and creative people, Dori and I are very aware of the multitude of issues concerning intellectual property, such as copyright, patents, and trademarks. In our modern world, with the immediacy of the internet and social networking, it can be very easy for anyone to publish something they do not own, and having been alerted recently to the copy/pasting of some of our own material on another site, and to the attempted theft of a family member's own brand and logo, I felt this was a relevant organization that our readers might be interested in.
I hope you all have a great Saturday and enjoy the weekend!
Until next time...
All information from the WIPO portal at: http://www.wipo.int/portal/en/
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