Topic: International Intellectual Property Protection
Country: Colombia
Delegate Name: Mr. Carter Wade
School: Roeper School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Colombia position papers GLIMUN 2017 committees
It is with intellectual anticipation that I stand before you today to form an international consensus on the future of intellectual property protection, especially in the international field. Intellectual property law is, in short, an agreement between society and producers of new ideas to grant the inventor sole rights to produce and profit from their idea or invention. This represents a temporary, government-sanctioned monopoly. The goal of intellectual property protection is to encourage innovation in the industry, marketing, or even creative works. A little-known fact about intellectual property law is that these protections are not just to reward success, but also to reward failure. The protection of intellectual property encourages developers of new products to push past, not one, not two, but tens of failures or even more by ensuring that the rewards for one success are so grand that researchers, designers, engineers, and scientists are pushed through long strings of failed ideas and prototypes to the one piece that sticks. Columbia has long been partnered with foreign nations in the realm of IP regulations. We have been party to the United States of America Free Trade Agreements, which include chapter sixteen specifically pertaining to international intellectual property law. The agreements themselves are based on the US system of IP protection, which in turn had been changed to better correspond to the IP system in the European Union under former President Barrack Obama. These patterns of reflecting policy of other nations for simpler coexistence around the globe, while retaining some key differences to reflect local phenomena and culture, demonstrate to the people of Columbia that small modifications to national IP protection, such as specific durations, fair use, and the like, to better reflect a global consensus and encouraging the recognition of patents, trademarks, and copyrights filed in other nations as valid elsewhere in the world represents all of the most encompassing, with the whole world in agreement; the easiest to implement, for all changes to be made occur at the national level; and the most permanent, as its reliance on fluidity of consensus among nations will allow adaptations to future society and culture, solution to the global integration of intellectual property protection at an international level.
