Ibinabo to address IP World Summit


Ibinabo to  address IP  World  Summit


PRESIDENT of Actors’ Guild of Nigeria, Ibinabo Fiberesima, will, come December 6, be speaking at World Intellectual Property Summit at Abidjan, Cote D ‘Ivoire. This is contained in a letter of invitation signed by Muriel Nazarie, WIPO’s Regional Bureau for Africa.
The letter invites the AGN boss to make a 20-minute presentation on the topic, Improving Actors’ Socio-Economic Conditions.
The letter reads in part: “I have the pleasure to send your letter of invitation as a speaker for the above mentioned meeting which will take place in Abidjan on December 6, 2013. I also have the pleasure to inform you that the World Intellectual Property Organisation , WIPO, will organise, in collaboration with Cote D’ivoire, a Ministerial Meeting of Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, on Creativity And Access to Knowledge: A Social And Economic Impetus For Africa, which will take place in Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire on December 6, 2013”.
According to the Geneva-based organisation, “The objective of this high level meeting is to address policies and strategies which need to be put in place to create a conducive framework for the economic and social states through creativity and access to knowledge and its dissemination.”
It further stated that discussions will centre on the new historic landmark treaties recently adopted by the member states of the WIPO, namely the Beijing Treaty on the Protection of Audiovisual Performances of June 24, 2013, and the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or otherwise Print Disabled of June 27, 2013; and will highlight the key to what these treaties can play in achieving these goals.

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