World Intellectual Property Day is observed annually on April 26th to highlight the importance of intellectual property rights like patents, trademarks, and copyrights in fostering innovation and creativity. The 2016 theme was "Digital Creativity: Culture Reimagined" which explored how culture is created, accessed, and financed in the digital age. World Intellectual Property Day was first proposed in 1999 by the General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organization to promote awareness of intellectual property rights.
World Intellectual Property Day is observed annually on April 26th to highlight the importance of intellectual property rights like patents, trademarks, and copyrights in fostering innovation and creativity. The 2016 theme was "Digital Creativity: Culture Reimagined" which explored how culture is created, accessed, and financed in the digital age. World Intellectual Property Day was first proposed in 1999 by the General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organization to promote awareness of intellectual property rights.
World Intellectual Property Day is observed annually on April 26th to highlight the importance of intellectual property rights like patents, trademarks, and copyrights in fostering innovation and creativity. The 2016 theme was "Digital Creativity: Culture Reimagined" which explored how culture is created, accessed, and financed in the digital age. World Intellectual Property Day was first proposed in 1999 by the General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organization to promote awareness of intellectual property rights.
Every year World Intellectual Property Day (WIPD) is being observed on 26 April to
highlight importance of intellectual property rights (patents, trademarks, industrial designs,
copyright) in encouraging innovation and creativity. 2016 Theme: “Digital Creativity: Culture Reimagined “. The theme seeks to explore the future of culture in the digital age in order to answer questions how we create it, how we access it, how we finance it related to it. The idea of declaring a particular day as a World Intellectual Property Day was mooted in October 1999 at the General Assembly of the WIPO
AC/E Digital Culture Annual Report: Smart Culture: Analysis of digital trends. Focus: The use of digital technologies in the conservation, analysis and dissemination of cultural heritage