The bimonthly WIPO Magazine (available in English, French and Spanish) aims to inform readers about WIPO-led activities, and to show intellectual property, creativity and innovation at work across the world.

In this issue:

    * Our series on IP and climate change continues with a case study on technology transfer From Cows to Kilowatts, followed by a look at the rise of eco-labelling and Green Branding.
    * The Italian creator of luxury silk fabrics discusses his IP Strategies in the Textile Industry.
    * In the Courts: Pursuing the P2P Pirates reports on a recent ECJ ruling relating to whether Internet Service Providers should be obliged to disclose identities of copyright-infringing file-sharers in civil cases.  While The Digital Music Market - Educating Users  focuses on legal downloading.
    * We share in A Day in the Life of an IP Blog-Meister with one of the UK's most prolific IP bloggers.

Plus:

    * Record Demand for WIPO Services in 2007 - the continuing rise in use of the PCT, the Madrid system, and WIPO's domain name dispute resolution service.
    * Debated Heroes from the Deep Sea - Marine Genetic Resources - Issues of ownership and patentablility of valuable genetic resources derived from the extraordinary organisms which lurk on the ocean floor.

And some regular feautures:

    * Invention Awards, featuring winning inventions from Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Malaysia.
    * Book Review: "Teaching of Intellectual Property", a new handbook co-published by WIPO and Cambridge University press.
    * Committee Meetings
    * In the News
    * Letters and Comment

WIPO Magazine is published bimonthly by the World Intellectual Property Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations.

Download WIPO Magazine, April 2008

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WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DAY 2008
Message from Kamil Idris, Director General,
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

World Intellectual Property Day is rapidly growing in popularity. Since its launch, eight years ago, increasing numbers of governments and organizations are joining WIPO in the annual celebrations on April 26.

The man or woman in the street might wonder just what makes intellectual property worth all this effort. What, they might ask, do the workings of copyrights, patents, industrial designs or trademarks have to do with the really big issues, like how to stop global warming; or with the things that add spice to life, like watching their favorite athletes perform in this year’s Olympics. The answer is that, without intellectual property rights, many new technologies developed to tackle global problems would never see the light of day and the great sporting events, which entertain and unite us, would not be broadcast into homes across the globe.

On World Intellectual Property Day we are celebrating not only the enormous power of human creativity, but also the intellectual property rights that help to fuel and channel it, making it such an important driving force for economic, cultural and social development.

The ingenuity of our species has propelled us from the invention of the first wheel, to effortless air travel and the latest generation of clean fuel technologies. It has led us from the creation of drawings on a cave wall, to the printing press, and on to the Internet, which puts the world literally at our fingertips. It has given us technical advances which allow pole-vaulters to soar ever higher, footballers to shoot ever further and millions of ordinary people to have a level of well-being which would have been unimaginable only a few generations ago.

WIPO is committed to using intellectual property as a means of harnessing and spreading the power of human creativity and innovation so that the people of every country, of every community, can share in their bounty.

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