Every April 26th is celebrated worldwide as Intellectual Property Day. This celebration was officially established in the year 2000, however, its raison d’être dates back much earlier.
The celebration was decreed by the United Nations and was particularly set aside on April 26, taking into consideration the date on which the WIPO Convention came into force, the international instrument by means of which the World Intellectual Property Organization was officially created in 1970. It should be noted that, although the date of entry into force was retained, the instrument first saw the light of day in the form of an agreement in 1967, and, according to WIPO’s historical information notes, was the fruit of five weeks of arduous negotiation during a conference held in the halls of the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm.
Throughout its history, WIPO has worked hard to develop an international intellectual property system that fosters innovation, creativity, and equitable access to the benefits of intellectual property. This is congruent with this fundamental celebration, which since its inception has had as its main motivation to highlight the importance of Intellectual Property in the modern world, creating awareness of the relevance of protecting the creations of the human intellect through copyright, as well as to emphasize the respect and dissemination of the rights comprised by Intellectual Property.
According to the purpose of the celebration, in this brief article we will share with your notions about the influence/presence of Intellectual Property in certain industry, and we will also make reference to some challenges that it faces and will face in the years to come, as a result of the technological advances of the human being.
For this purpose, we have taken the sports industry as a reference, and as for the challenges, we have taken Artificial Intelligence as a reference.
