Intelectual Property Week
Proyecto ACCESO brought together a coalition of stakeholders fighting IP piracy and produced Intellectual Property Week in Chile in September and October 2004.
The events were sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Chile and featured a number of cutting-edge programs, including: training workshops for Chilean prosecutors, customs agents, tax collection investigators, and front-line police officers to improve skills in Intellectual Property rights enforcement (taught with support from U.S. prosecutors and FBI agents as instructors); public forums dedicated to building a national consensus to battle piracy; the launching of a middle school curriculum developed to combat Intellectual Property piracy; and a set of workshops for artists and musicians concerning mechanisms to protect Intellectual Property rights.
Since the successes of IP Week, we have educated young people about the dangers of piracy and reached out to fans of cultural industries and held concerts in support of Intellectual Property rights.
We have continued to build national and regional consensus through ACCESO Capacitación skills-building seminars and national roundtable discussions for judges, prosecutors, Congress members, artists, actors, writers, and film-makers concerning intellectual Property rights, their value to innovation and economic growth, and the importance of putting resources into the enforcement of IP rights.
IP Week pictures
