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                                                 WIPO and Caribbean IP, what’s the point?   By Abiola Inniss                               Recent months have seen a few interesting intellectual property symposia in the Caribbean, in particular the WIPO –JIPO Regional Conference on IP and creative industries which was held in Jamaica from February 10-12 2014. It is quite interesting that in spite of the intention that it should be regional as indicated in the title of the conference, there seems to have been little participation from the fifteen member countries of Caricom and that most of the sessions focused on Jamaica and its situation, perhaps a natural outcome of the WIPO –JIPO collaboration.   Progressive Caribbean intellectuals in the area of intellectual property were also notably absent from the forum. In both of these situations WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) holds responsibility for not ensuring that the conference was widely advertised and tha
Copyright    today; Perspectives on Local and International Copyright Issues By Abiola Inniss LLM, Ph.D. Law and Public Policy Researcher, Walden University.U.S.A Caribbean Copyright Consultant WIPO . A presentation on the occasion of World Book and Copyright Day ,April 23rd,2014 at the National Library ,Georgetown,Guyana.                                Chairman of the Guyana National Library Commission, Madam Chief Librarian, Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Distinguished Guests al l, I am delighted to be here with you to celebrate this important event. I was extremely happy to accept the kind invitation from the National Library to come home to share some knowledge on the cutting edge issues of International Intellectual Property law and on Copyright in particular.  Today on world book and copyright day we acknowledge the contributions of creative artists of every kind all over the world especially our local authors.        The World book and Copyright day was the creation o