Topic: International Intellectual Property Protection
Country: Israel
Delegate Name: Benjamin Raterink
School: Forest Hills Eastern High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Israel position papers GLIMUN 2017 committees
Intellectual property is, or can be, any numerous forms of creation or work that have been produced by the human mind. This can be any variety of items such as: names, images, literary pieces, symbols, or artistic works that are released to the general global-public. The issues related to Intellectual Property (IP) started to take relevance in the modern world when the Paris Convention of 1883 and the Berne Convention of 1893 formed together to make up the ‘United International Bureaux for the Protection of IP’. This group released few works and settled disputes which related to IP protection, but they were later succeeded by the ‘World Intellectual Property Organisation’ (WIPO), who is the current United Nations (UN) leader and group to handle IP. The UN’s current works, aside from the WIPO Convention treaty and the publications by the WIPO, have been treaties such as the Marrakesh treaty. The government of Israel has signed to the WIPO Convention and applauds to the assembly for their works on the IP issue. However, with the growing intensity of the topic, the country of Israel supports the future works of the WIPO and the required regulations or protection systems that will be implemented for the benefit of the global population and its intellectual property.
The debate for the protection of Intellectual Property within Israel began with Biblical texts due to the conflicting religions which exist in the country. With the modernization of the world, Israel has shifted its aim from religious ideologies to pharmaceuticals. The medicinal field of Israel has increased exponentially and has become a wondrous source of income for the country, but the issue of IP protection has remained consistent. Without the protection of IP for the government research facilities in Israel, the country will be negatively hurt. Its for this reason that the state of Israel has created roughly 78 different texts in response to the issues of the protection of IP. These texts are laws or regulations that the government has placed in order to provide improved security of intellectual property. These texts consist of items within the constitution, monopoly laws which have been instituted, and laws or regulations which relate to the matter of IP. However, the main concern of Intellectual Property for the Israeli government is pharmaceuticals, genetic research, and other medicinal forms; the laws instituted are in place to protect every citizen equally and provide them with the claim to their material of creative work: monopoly laws.
The state of Israel strenuously calls for the Legal committee to reevaluate the definition of Intellectual Property and what is encompassed by the definition by clearly stating what applies and to develop a comprehensive monopoly protection system of Intellectual Property such as those used in Israel. The state of Israel additionally mentions a few current works from the WTO and the WIPO such as: the TRIPS Agreement, the Madrid System, and the Hague Agreement Concerning the Registration of Industrial Designs (1925) as points that the UN has taken effort to remedy the issues related to the Protection of Intellectual Property. However, these treaties are vague and require subsidiary action within nations’ borders to become more effective. Other member-states to the WIPO should advocate for monopoly laws and regulations in result that strict and clear guidelines will be built to control intellectual property within a country's borders. The redefining of the definition for Intellectual Property should comprise of all articles which are protected and considered to be IP. To Israel, articles which are considered to be IP are: written musical works, online musical works, broadcasts, any literary works which are published and not published, any patent and non-patent designs or inventions, items considered public domain, branding materials, and items of artistic design. The nation of Israel sees Intellectual Property as the property, and right to protect such commodities, as belonging to every human as a natural right which should justifiably be stated within a comprehensible resolution and system which can uphold that right.
