A Real Especial Day?

The Accra Mail (Ghana) reports that Sat 23 Apr 2005 is World Book too Copyright Day. Designated yesteryear UNESCO equally an annual worldwide celebration, the result is meant to encourage too assistance immature people to abide by the pleasance of reading books too the ask to protect copyright too full general cognition of the literary industry. The programme, which would hold out held nether the subject "Knowledge is Power" volition too include a football game Gala, which volition involve half dozen minute cycle schools competing for a giant trophy. H5N1 particular quiz contest alongside attractive prizes volition too hold out organised. This result is targeted at basic too minute cycle schools too is aimed at strengthening their involvement too skills inward obtaining data from books, the Internet too related media. Prizes laid upwards aside for participants inward the quiz contest include complimentary membership of the French Information Centre inward Accra, network access too scholarships for French linguistic communication courses.

Citizens of Accra attain got to their boats inward an attempt
to flee "World Book too Copyright Day"

In contest alongside UNESCO, the WIPO website says that Tuesday 26 Apr is WIPO's World Intellectual Property Day. H5N1 list of "suggested activities" is furnished for those who powerfulness otherwise merely hold out sitting at home, reading the French Information they won from the French Information Centre inward Accra ...

In representative yous missed it, vii Apr was the World Health Organization's World Health Day. Presumably this was non a telephone phone to the nations of the basis to firebomb the proprietary pharmaceutical companies too rank out medicines for volume production yesteryear the Indian generics industry. Nor did the WHO telephone phone for a renewal of the boycott of IP-rich Nestle for pushing its milk formula brands into societies that don't nonetheless attain got access to build clean H2O for preparing their products (click hither for comments yesteryear Nestle, Baby Milk Action and too thus Nestle again).

Is the IPKat lone inward thinking that the stance of copyright days too IP days is a piddling pathetic? Particularly if, for most people, 1 IP twenty-four hr menstruum a twelvemonth leaves 364 days for making unauthorised copies, P2P file-sharing, plagiarising essays too schoolhouse assignments too thus on. Comments, please.