{"id":3160656,"date":"2022-09-23T07:37:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T07:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webalkans.eu\/giving-credit-to-creations-of-the-mind\/"},"modified":"2022-09-23T07:37:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T07:37:41","slug":"giving-credit-to-creations-of-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webalkans.eu\/en\/giving-credit-to-creations-of-the-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving credit to creations of the mind"},"content":{"rendered":"\nThe creative industries in Kosovo reinforce their intellectual property position with EU assistance.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Festivals are an established structure for cultural events in Kosovo. Dominated by film and music, there is an abundance of them during the summer months. Some of them stand out with their cinematography entries and unique screening venues, for example <a href=\"https:\/\/dokufest.com\/\">Dokufest<\/a> in Prizren and <a href=\"https:\/\/anibar.org\/\">Anibar<\/a> in Peja\/Pe\u0107, as well as the effect they have in transforming the host cities during the festival. These cultural hubs have taken the initiative to tackle current affairs through film, but also to address the issues that creators face, including intellectual property (IP) protection.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u201cAudio-visual content is among the most heavily pirated material.\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Copyright as an EU requirement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kosovo does not have functioning collecting societies, which are bodies authorised to collect copyright fees for the use of creative works and to pay the owners of those rights, such as songwriters, authors, artists, and publishers. This gap has influenced the way in which society perceives the requirement to pay for materials under copyright, and created a need to raise awareness on how copyright affects creative industries, including creators in film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFilm festivals are visible occasions to disseminate information about the role of copyright,\u201d says Ioannis Kikkis, an expert on copyright, on the opportunity to talk to industry representatives directly. Along with other prominent specialists in the field, he presented real life examples of how creators and rightsholders were \u201crobbed of opportunities\u201d at this summer\u2019s Dokufest and Anibar festivals. He confirms that some viewers do not have a clear understanding of why copyright is important for this industry, and why it needs to be respected. Kikkis has been in Kosovo for over two years now, and is working with an EU-funded project to strengthen the position of institutions in intellectual property through awareness-raising.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cCopyright is at the foundation of all film production. It gives creators the confidence that they own their work, and that they will be entitled to manage the distribution of the finished product,\u201d says Kikkis. \u201cAt the same time, audio-visual content is among the most heavily pirated material.\u201dFestival-goers also learnt about EU best practices for opportunities deriving from copyright, including film funding, protecting animation creations in the gaming industry, and other topics on the economics of copyright-based industries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u201cCountries are adopting a strategic approach to the role of intellectual property in unleashing the potential of creativity to the benefit of creators and society as a whole.\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n<strong>About the project<\/strong>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The EU Support to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) project supports the legal, administrative, and structural capacities of Kosovo institutions in charge of the development and enforcement of these rights. It has assisted Kosovo in drafting a legislative framework in line with European Union standards. It assists institutions to have a fully functional IP system, aligned with EU practices, which provides a solid framework for boosting economic transactions involving intellectual property rights.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Protecting rights to inspire innovation <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Works that require registration, rather than copyright, are creations that fall under industrial property like trademarks, industrial design, and patents. Kosovo registers thousands of trademarks through its <a href=\"https:\/\/kipa.rks-gov.net\/\">Industrial Property Agency<\/a> every year. Efforts have been made in recent years to encourage local businesses to do more in this regard, by registering their products and ensuring protection becomes more competitive both at home and abroad. The protection of existing products provokes the minds of creators to invent new things, introducing innovative solutions for modern-day problems that also reward the rightful owners of innovations in the long run.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, intellectual property is gaining wider acceptance as a crucial element in the creative economy. \u201cCountries are adopting a strategic approach to the role of intellectual property in unleashing the potential of creativity to the benefit of creators and society as a whole,\u201d says Kikkis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The creative industries in Kosovo reinforce their intellectual property position with EU assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3160657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[694],"tags":[],"area-of-cooperation":[418,419],"country":[247],"opportunity-type":[],"class_list":["post-3160656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","area-of-cooperation-business-and-sme-support","area-of-cooperation-competitiveness-and-growth","country-kosovo"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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