How intellectual property can materialize and contribute to make the world a better place?
This year, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), has chosen “IP and the SDGs: Building our common future with innovation and creativity”, as the theme of the celebration of the World Intellectual Property (IP) Day. As we celebrate, we are reminded of the importance of intellectual property, copyright and creativity, and also of how intellectual property can materialize and contribute to make the world a better place.
While commemorating World IP Day, we acknowledge the urgent call to action in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including the call to end poverty and inequality, and to protect the planet, for example. IFRRO and its members are proud to contribute to the achievement of the SDGs through their regular day to day work and the development of new business models to protect the economic viability of creation and dissemination of copyrighted works, to guarantee appropriate remuneration, and to foster local markets.
More concretely, IFRRO and its members’ efforts are focussed on SDGs 4 (Quality Education), 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure) and 10 (Reduced Inequalities). IFRRO is engaged in promoting related initiatives and collaborating closely with its partners in the UN family. Earlier this year, in line with its strategic plan for 2024-2026, our Board of Directors, agreed to sign the SDG Publisher Compact launched in 2020 in collaboration with IPA and joined its members in the global effort of accelerating the achievement of the UN SDGs by 2030.
As yet another way of celebrating, we encourage partners to become signatories of the SDG Publisher Compact, and join IFRRO members in their global effort of achieving these goals.
World IP Day 2024 - IP and the SDGs: Building our common future with innovation and creativity Thursday, 25th April 2024
