{"id":6,"date":"2007-04-10T09:14:22","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T09:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/04\/10\/world-intellectual-property-day-april-26-2007\/"},"modified":"2008-01-13T12:32:39","modified_gmt":"2008-01-13T12:32:39","slug":"world-intellectual-property-day-april-26-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/04\/10\/world-intellectual-property-day-april-26-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"World Intellectual Property Day: April 26, 2007."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;For the record, <a rel=nofollow href=\"http:\/\/www.marketingpilgrim.com\/2007\/01\/campaign-to-reduce-wikipedias-pagerank-to-zero.html\">I&#8217;m not a Wikipedia spammer<\/a>.&#8221;<\/i> Of course you&#8217;re not, dear.<\/li>\n<li>Wikipedia&#8217;s &#8220;unreliability&#8221; is actually a powerful force for the advancement of the human race through the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Help_desk&#038;diff=116346003&#038;oldid=116330120\">Darwinian process<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blue-comic.com\/archives\/20070403.html\">Blue&#8217;s Guide to Search<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/freeculture.org\/\">freeculture.org<\/a> mailing list:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>April 26, 2007 is World Intellectual Property Day, as declared by our friends at WIPO. The theme for 2007 is &#8220;Encouraging Creativity&#8221; &mdash;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wipo.int\/about-ip\/en\/world_ip\/2007\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.wipo.int\/about-ip\/en\/world_ip\/2007\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I encourage all free culture advocates to organize activities in proximity to IP Day with the theme: <i>&#8220;Encouraging Creativity: Are We?&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Rather than a self-congratulatory pat on the back, modern intellectual property regimes deserve critical examination &mdash; and, some argue, a kick in the ass. This crucial public policy issue should invite tempered deliberation and public participation, not grandstanding and finger-wagging.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a local CopyNight meet-up in your town, this would be a great theme for April. (Most CopyNights meet on the 4th Tuesday of the month, which would be April 24, just two days before IP Day.)<\/p>\n<p>If not, you could organize some other event &mdash; or just get together with a group of friends at your favorite bar or cafe.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget: WIPO says, <i>&#8220;Member States and organizations are encouraged to send brief reports of the events and activities organized in their country to celebrate World IP Day.&#8221;<\/i> So be sure to send them an announcement of your event. I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll be thrilled to hear.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure Wikimedians have some <i>marvellous<\/i> ideas for this one. You have two weeks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For the record, I&#8217;m not a Wikipedia spammer.&#8221; Of course you&#8217;re not, dear. Wikipedia&#8217;s &#8220;unreliability&#8221; is actually a powerful force for the advancement of the human race through the Darwinian process. Blue&#8217;s Guide to Search. From the freeculture.org mailing list: April 26, 2007 is World Intellectual Property Day, as declared by our friends at WIPO. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2007\/04\/10\/world-intellectual-property-day-april-26-2007\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;World Intellectual Property Day: April 26, 2007.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FmVR-6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}