[pp.int.general] 23 April: UNESCO launches Anti-Piracy Observatory to celebrate World Book and Copyright Day :(

[Patrick Maechler v/o Valio]

(Sorry for the previous mail with the embedded message that got  
scrubbed; my current webmail client is rather useless -_-)

Claude Almansi wrote:

today, "23 April: UNESCO launches Anti-Piracy Observatory to celebrate
World Book and Copyright Day":
"UNESCO is celebrating World Book and Copyright Day on 23 April by
highlighting the need to preserve creativity from piracy. The Day also
marks the launch of celebrations in Ljubljana (Slovenia), World Book
Capital for 2010. (...)"
rest at  
<http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/23_april_unesco_launches_anti_piracy_observatory_to_celebrate_world_book_and_copyright_day/back/18256/>.

:(

They also posted a video about it on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC4lkyBc-1k Transcript (1):

"0:07 Petya Totcharova - World Anti-Piracy Observatory - UNESCO:
Protecting copyright is very important for fostering creativity.  And
this is one of the reasons why UNESCO, together with protection of
books and reading, many years ago, approved the international
copyright - book and copyright day.
0:27 Unesco has, over the years, developped a number of activities
that would contribute towards eradicating or reducing piracy.
0:37 We have developped a lot of capacity-building initiative,
especially in developping countries where national culture and
national creativity suffer a lot from the effect of piracy.
0:51 It is very important to find a balance between the protection of
rights of creators, and the access of the general public to protected
works.
1:02 The latest, the most recent activity  of UNESCO is the launch of
the World Anti-Piracy Observatory.  We have considered it important to
develop this web-based, internet-based tool, providing detailed
information about different measures - legislative or non formal
measures - that are applied by different countries in the world.
1:29 So the purpose is two-fold.  On one side, provide governments all
over the world with best practices, information and good ideas about
enforcement of rights and about respecting intellectual property laws,
  On the other side, information provided for more than 110 countries
in the world also helps the right owners themselves 1:58"

Odd that an organization dealing with culture and education should use
such a heavily connotated term as "piracy".

And the latest item in the "newscorner" part (2) of this World
Anti-Piracy Observatory (3)  is "Digital Economy Bill approved by the
UK House of Lords" (4), dated April 4, 2010...

Best

Claude

(1) I transcribed it because UNESCO does not caption its YouTube
videos, and the result of YT's autocaptioning is rather bizarre, e.g.
0:07 - 0:27 is autocaptioned as: "what they think about the line the
very important food costs increases and this is one of the reasons
line school together with that prediction books and beating main ago
at who their international copyright broken competent the" ....
(2)  
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=39510&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
(3)  
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=39055&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
(4)  
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=40734&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html