Topic: International Intellectual Property Protection
Country: Botswana
Delegate Name: Lilly Waterfall
School: Royal Oak High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Botswana position papers GLIMUN 2017 committees
Without the creative minds within our country, and many other creative and hardworking countries. Without these innovative thinkers within our, and other societies, we may have never created new, genuine ideas that could possibly change the world. Thankfully, many conventions have helped protect intellectual property rights. From the Berne Convention to help of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), and the Trade-Related aspects of intellectual property rights, better known as the TRIPS agreement. The WTO is an organization that helps regulate trade and services between countries with intellectual properties rights to provide a solid framework for trade agreements. The TRIPS agreements revolves around two main topics; copyright rights and rights of artists ext. We have signed this agreement for many reasons; to protect the right of the creative minds and ideas (including trade) for the better for the nations as a whole. The TRIPS agreement, includes many benefits for trade within the WTO, and copyright laws for others. TRIPS reinforces ideas and rules stated in the Berne Convention, the main ideas of WIPO and the Paris convention. With the new ideas and constant change in morally correct rights, the IP rights and rules are changing and becoming more specific day by day. There are several additional bills and laws Botswana has passed that go beyond to make sure the enforcement of IP rights are followed. From large ideas of looking over trade, and international treaties, to a much smaller scale of simple copyright laws, intellectual property is a large topic in which Botswana continuously supports the ideas and agreements with the UN and Botswana continues to pass and ratify to ensure safety and security of these rights on a smaller scale within our country to ensure intellectual property rights of all kinds will not be ignored. A resolution Botswana would like to see is all nations of the the UN to realize the importance of intellectual property rights. The importance of these rights vary from looking over trade agreements (which is extremely beneficial with the UN so we can resolve and end the disagreements between countries), to simply protecting rights of common citizen within your society and ours. The more established and specific these treaties and conventions become, the more beneficial it will be to all of us in the long run. Broad statements lead to confusion. Tight and narrow rules with expectations and guidelines lead to the change in a community and the world. Botswana doesn't single out any one country for their views on intellectual rights, but just hopes to continuously see changes and more countries realizing the importance of these rights.
