Transcript for UNESCO highlights the World Book and Copyright Day (23 April ) [no image, just for captioning]

[World Book and Copyright Day - April 23, 2010]

[Petya Totcharova - World Anti-Piracy Observatory - UNESCO]

Protecting copyright is very important for fostering creativity.

And this is one of the reasons why UNESCO,

together with the protection of books and reading

many years ago, approved the International Copyright -

Book and Copyright Day

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Unesco has, over the years, developped a number of activities

that would contribute towards eradicating or reducing piracy.

We have developped a lot of capacity-building initiatives,

especially in developping countries where national culture and national creativity

suffer a lot from the effect of piracy.

It is very important to find a balance between the protection of rights of creators,

and the access of the general public to protected works.

The latest, the most recent activity of UNESCO

is the launch of the World Anti-Piracy Observatory.

We have considered it important

to develop fhis web-based, internet-based tool,

providing detailed information about different measures

- legislative or non formal measures -

that are applied by different countries in the world.

So the purpose is two-fold.

On one side, provide governments all over the world

with best practices, information and good ideas

about enforcement of rights and about respecting intellectual property laws

On the other side, information provided for more than 110 countries in the world

also helps the right owners themselves

(English captions: Claude Almansi - Webmultimediale.org)