Talk:World Intellectual Property Day

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I don't know anything about this, but does any government actually recognized "World Intellectual Property Day"? Or is this some kind of expo by an orginization? This would be very relevent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.246.241.194 (talk • contribs)

The links for EPO, CIPRO and CIPO are given, which means there ARE governments which recognise it. But seriously, this is the lamest day ever! Next, "World Walking is good Day".--Scheibenzahl 18:48, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Critique?

This page needs a whole lot of critical sources, since Intellectual Property is by far not an "only good" thing. Especially the most recent motto "promoting respect for intellectual property" shows that 1) they are pushing for forcing IP into our daily lives and 2) trying to make that look like it's required and good, while both are not necessarily the case. In fact, this is one of the typical examples where corporate lobbyists created a marketing campaign seemingly benefitting the people, while in reality only benefitting themselves. Compare with Software Patents and the RIAA / DMCA, where lobbyists (probably the same ones) tricked gullible governments into supporting them. On a personal note, apart from being absolutely lame, this thing almost made me puke. 217.82.120.231 (talk) 17:04, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My comment on the above

Intellectual property is a horrible concept , well just you reading wikipedia is a direct victory against it . What I wanted to ask if there are any parallel events to it housed by the opposition to IP?