Hello everyone—my name is Kathleen, and I am currently the spring intern at the Copyright Alliance. Yesterday was my first World IP Day hosted by the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI), and I was humbled by the number of brilliant and impassioned individuals who attended. When I first arrived, the conference room was surprisingly empty, [...]

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WASHINGTON — Join me in celebrating World IP Day, and yes, let’s emphasize the word “World.” Here at the Copyright Alliance we tend to focus on U.S. artists and creators, but creativity and cultural contributions are global. International treaties provide rights under law to artists around the world, but that doesn’t mean their own countries [...]

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WASHINGTON — It’s World IP Day again, did you get all of your celebratory cards in the mail? No harm if you didn’t, but the ten-year-old designation by the World Intellectual Property Organization has been celebrated the last five years by the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) with an event on Capitol Hill, and today [...]

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WASHINGTON — Happy World IP Day! The ten-year old holiday, launched by the World Intellectual Property Organization, has been celebrated for the last five years by the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) with a conference on Capitol Hill. Today’s was possibly the best yet, despite the fact that I moderated a panel there with a [...]

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This is the fifth year the Institute for Policy Innovation is hosting a conference in conjunction with World IP Day. It keeps getting better every year, and I’m not just saying that because I’m moderating a discussion with longtime copyright advocate Rep. Robert Goodlatte (R-VA) and accomplished author and screenwriter Andrew Klavan.
This year’s event is [...]

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CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — As I’m here listening to talk about trade and international IP enforcement under President Obama, I’m thinking about the great editorial in yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle by U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk.
This is the second time I have praised Kirk on this blog. It is clear that he, like U.S. Commerce [...]

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World Intellectual Property Day is Sunday, April 26th, but that’s a lousy day for a conference, so the Institute for Policy Innovation is hosting its fourth annual forum on April 30th from 9:30 am to 1 pm in Washington, D.C.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), the founder of the House Songwriters Caucus, will speak, along with Kira [...]

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It may not have been the intent of the staff from the Institute for Policy Innovation who organized the event held yesterday in recognition of World IP Day to cause me to think of the effect of a small stone tossed into a calm lake, but I did.

As I listened to an esteemed group of panelists - Lien Verbauwhede Koglin of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Michael A. Gollin of Public Interest Intellectual Property Advocates (PIIPA), and Mohit Mehrotra of Excel Life Sciences - discuss the effects of intellectual property on local social and economic development in many countries, I thought of the many ripples that one stone can cause in a lake.

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