During the 42nd session of the Standing Committee on Copyright

Bodour Al Qasimi from Geneva: Intellectual property protection enhances the knowledge industry

Bodour Al Qasimi called during the conference to protect publishers from paper and electronic piracy.

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Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al Qasimi, President of the International Publishers Association, stressed the importance of protecting intellectual property rights in enhancing the role of the publishing industry in raising reading rates, introducing cultural heritage, consolidating dialogue and understanding between cultures, supporting diversity, promoting education, and protecting local and minority languages. , and indigenous languages.

This came during the 42nd session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, in Geneva, Switzerland, during which the President of the International Publishers Association discussed how well-established frameworks for the protection of intellectual property and copyright provided by the agreements of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), empower publishers. All over the world from investing in writers, upgrading literature, and enriching research, despite the repercussions of the pandemic.

Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi pointed to the importance of intellectual property protection frameworks and their role in increasing investment in creative content in developed and developing countries alike, and called for the effective promotion of these rights to protect publishers from paper and electronic piracy, and to enrich the dissemination of educational resources in original languages ​​and the publications of local writers.

She pointed to the role of the initiatives of the International Publishers Association, in particular the initiative of the global plan for the sustainability and resilience of the publishing sector "Inspire", in helping the concerned authorities in the publishing sector, writers, illustrators, printing experts, distributors, libraries and book distributors, to reach recovery from the repercussions of the epidemic.

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