Keyword: WIPO

Economic Contribution of Copyright Industries in the Netherlands – a study based on the WIPO Guide download

Content, J., Jong, G. de, Poort, J. & Toepoel, I.
2025

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This study measures the economic contribution of industries for which copyright is relevant using the methodology as defined in the Guide of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The study, which is being conducted for the third time using this methodology, shows that in 2022, the copyright industries contributed 60 billion euros in added value, accounting for 6.0% of Dutch GDP. Their relative economic impact has therefor remained stable over time: in 2011 copyright industries accounted for 6.0% of GDP and in 2005 their share was 5.9% of GDP. Despite the economic shock caused by the corona pandemic, the relative contribution of copyright-related industries within the economy remained stable, with only minor fluctuations in GDP share and employment between 2019 and 2022.

Copyright, economics, WIPO

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Joint Comment to WIPO on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence external link

Flynn, S., Carroll, M., Sag, M., Guibault, L., Margoni, T., Butler, B., Rocha de Souza, A., Bogataj Jancic, M., Jaszi, P., Quintais, J., Geiger, C., Ncube, C., White, B., Scaria, A.G., Botero, C. & Craig, C.
2020

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On December 13, 2019, WIPO invited member states and all other interested parties to provide comments and suggestions to help define the issues related to intellectual property (IP) and artificial intelligence (AI) based on a Draft Issues Paper on IP Policy and AI. These comments will be used to prepare a revised issues paper for discussion at the second session of the WIPO Conversation on IP and AI. This Joint Comment is made in response to WIPO’s Public Consultation on AI and IP Policy and is endorsed by 16 members of the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights.

Artificial intelligence, Auteursrecht, frontpage, WIPO

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The WIPO Broadcasting Treaty. A Conceptual Conundrum external link

Hugenholtz, P.
European Intellectual Property Review, vol. 2019, num: 4, pp: 199-202, 2019

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The Broadcasting Treaty that has been discussed at WIPO for over twenty years, seems to be reaching a dead end. The Treaty that aims at extending the legal protection of broadcasters to the digital realm, suffers from three serious flaws: one economic, one conceptual and one pragmatic. Due to the decreasing technical costs of broadcasting, the economic case for granting special rights to broadcasters is weakening. Moreover, properly defining the act of ‘broadcasting’ that would give rise to legal protection, is highly problematic. Finally, no real and urgent need for a new right seems to exist, in light of current legal regimes that broadcasters already rely on under national law. Perhaps the time has come to abandon work on the WIPO Broadcasting Treaty, and move on.

Auteursrecht, frontpage, WIPO, WIPO broadcasting treaty

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The WIPO Broadcasting Treaty. A Conceptual Conundrum external link

Hugenholtz, P.
2018

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Keynote at KEI Seminar, Appraising the WIPO Broadcast Treaty and its Implications on Access to Culture, Geneva 3-4 October 2018

Auteursrecht, broadcasting treaty, frontpage, Naburige rechten, omroepen, WIPO

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Protecting traditional cultural expressions – copyright tensions and human rights opportunities? external link

Breemen, J.
Critical Indigenous Rights Studies, Routledge, 0928, pp: 108-133, ISBN: 9781138729339

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The protection of traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) is not a straightforward issue. At first sight, characteristics of TCEs and their protection suggest similarity to copyright works. However, TCE protection should not be viewed as simply an (isolated) intellectual property issue. Rather, the protection of TCEs is part of a broader (political) context and struggle for rights. The chapter focuses on showing the complexity of the interrelation between copyright and indigenous peoples’ rights. It argues that a cultural and indigenous rights perspective could help address tensions deriving from differing worldviews, the application of dominant, existing legal frameworks and diverging understandings of protecting creativity and works of culture.

Copyright, crossing legal boundaries, cultural rights, frontpage, indigenous rights, Intellectual property, protection issues, TCEs, traditional cultural expressions, UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, WIPO

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International Survey on Private Copying WIPO – Thuiskopie external link

Poort, J.
2016

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Presentation "International Survey on Private Copying WIPO – Thuiskopie" at International Conference on Private Copying, Hermitage Amsterdam 23 June 2016

Intellectuele eigendom, levies, private copy, private copying, thuiskopie, WIPO

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