World Intellectual Property Organization



The World Intellectual Property Organization is a specialised agency of the United Nations. The World Intellectual Property Organization was created in 1967 to encourage creative activity and to promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world.

Quotes

 * How did we get here [with complex and restrictive copyright laws]? Well, it starts with an organization called WIPO, which is for copyright what Mordor is for evil in Middle Earth.
 * Cory Doctorow, Digital and Social Conference, Berlin, Norway, November 12, 2004