Minister Park Yang-woo Seeks International Intellectual Property Cooperation to Overcome COVID-19

Attended the Global Intellectual Property Video Conference Hosted by the Saudi Intellectual Property Authority on the 26th

Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Park Yang-woo.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Heung-soon] Park Yang-woo, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, will attend the World Intellectual Property Forum held via video conference on the 26th.

At this forum, heads of intellectual property-related institutions from the Group of Twenty (G20) countries, along with intellectual property experts from around the world, will discuss overcoming the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the future of intellectual property rights.

The forum will include a total of 33 institutions, including G20 and invited countries' intellectual property authorities, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the World Health Organization (WHO), and other international organizations. From South Korea, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korean Intellectual Property Office will participate, representing the fields of copyright and industrial property rights respectively. This is the first forum for international cooperation in the G20 intellectual property sector. It was organized in conjunction with the G20 summit scheduled for November.

The forum will focus on sharing intellectual property policy cases from participating institutions under the theme of responding to the global crisis caused by COVID-19 and will intensively discuss future international cooperation measures.

Minister Park emphasized the importance of this forum, which strengthens cooperation with G20 intellectual property departments to overcome the global pandemic of COVID-19, and will share South Korea’s copyright policy cases responding to COVID-19 recovery and the transition to a non-face-to-face era.

As part of the 'Korean New Deal,' he will introduce cases such as the revision of the 'Guidelines for Use of Works for Educational Purposes' to resolve copyright issues in remote education, efforts to amend copyright law for the academic use of big data, a continuous monitoring system to respond to online infringements, and activities of the online special investigation team.

The forum will adopt a joint declaration containing contents such as the dissemination of intellectual property and mutual cooperation for overcoming COVID-19 and economic recovery. The joint declaration includes consensus that intellectual property is the core of innovation and sustainable growth and a driving force to overcome COVID-19, along with policy sharing, strengthening cooperation with international organizations, and regularizing the G20 intellectual property cooperation forum.

Minister Park said, "I hope that this meeting will serve as an opportunity for sharing successful cases from each country and that cooperation in the field of intellectual property will become more active."

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