Tunisia celebrated, with all the member states of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), the World Intellectual Property Day, observed on April 26 every year.
World Intellectual Property Day provides a unique opportunity each year to reflect on the role of intellectual property in the development of music and the arts, and in the technological innovation that helps shape our world.
This year, WIPO, of which Tunisia became a member on November 28, 1975, has chosen to place this Day under the theme «Women and Intellectual Property: Accelerating the pace of innovation and creativity.»
Tunisia joins in this celebration by paying tribute to the determination of women inventors, creators and entrepreneurs and to their pioneering work, says a statement from the Ministry of Cultural Affairs.
By celebrating women entrepreneurs, innovators and creators, this day is an opportunity to highlight the crucial role of women creators in the artistic field in general as well as their contribution to the world of innovation.
The Ministry of Cultural Affairs reiterated its willingness to support and encourage creative women, particularly in the field of cultural and creative industries.
Tunisia has made remarkable progress in the field of intellectual property rights in accordance with the international conventions to which it has adhered since the 1960s, the Ministry added in a statement.
This day is an opportunity to raise awareness of the need to respect intellectual and artistic property rights as an essential factor in stimulating, disseminating and promoting cultural production.
This is an opportunity to promote the prerogatives of the Tunisian Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Organisation, whose mission consists of guaranteeing the material and moral rights of creators and authors, particularly through safeguarding copyright, defending the material and moral interests of the holders of these rights and upholding the culture of copyright and neighbouring rights in Tunisia.
Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse