On March 1-2, 2011 the National Seminar “Protection of Copyright, Related Rights and Collective Management” and the Round Table “Mass Media and Copyright Protection Issues” took place in Bishkek, organized jointly by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the State Intellectual Property Service of the Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyzpatent).
The Seminar had the following objectives:
1. Attention attraction of the Parliament Deputies and the community to the necessity to approve the Bill on inserting of alterations and additions into the Law of the Kyrgyz Republic “On Copyright and Related Rights”, which is considered now by the Parliament.
2. Promotion of the initiative to establish in the country the societies for collective management by authors’ rights and owners of relative rights by creative unions.
3. Community’s attention attraction to the topic problem of authors’ copyright infringement in the Internet environment.
4. Information distribution among community on Kyrgyzpatent’s activities in the field of copyright protection and popularization of IP issues.
5. Studying and distribution of international experience on creation of social organizations for collective management by economic rights of authors and right holders.
Program [DOC]