{"id":23744,"date":"2016-04-26T16:01:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T20:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=23744"},"modified":"2016-04-26T16:01:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T20:01:18","slug":"cfif-celebrates-world-intellectual-property-ip-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/23744\/cfif-celebrates-world-intellectual-property-ip-day\/","title":{"rendered":"CFIF Celebrates World Intellectual Property (IP) Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please join CFIF in celebrating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wipo.int\/ip-outreach\/en\/ipday\/\">World IP Day<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Over more than two centuries, the U.S. has become the most innovative, prosperous and powerful nation in human history, without even remote competition.\u00a0 What nation in all of recorded history rivals our array of patented advancements, from the light bulb to powered flight to computer technology to lifesaving pharmaceutical and medical advancements?\u00a0 What nation has so dominated the world in terms of copyrighted content, from blockbuster films to popular music to literature to television entertainment?\u00a0 What nation has ever maintained such disproportionately high levels of valuable trademarks recognized instantaneously throughout the world, from soft drink logos to technological products that have revolutionized our lives?<\/p>\n<p>The simple answer is that no society rivals the U.S. in any one of those categories, let alone all of them simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>And that is the direct result of America&#8217;s tradition of strong IP protections, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobalipcenter.com\/gipcindex\/?utm_source=Twitter%20Ad&amp;utm_medium=tweet&amp;utm_campaign=IP%20Index%20DC%20Twitter\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Chamber of Commerce&#8217;s annual International IP Index<\/a> makes clear. \u00a0Our Founding Fathers specifically protected IP rights in the <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/42-constitution-and-legal\/1679-the-constitutional-and-historical-foundations-of-copyright-protection\" target=\"_blank\">text of the Constitution<\/a>, and the U.S. has consistently led the world in protecting IP rights.\u00a0 The relationship between America&#8217;s IP protections and our unrivaled innovation and prosperity therefore isn&#8217;t coincidental, it&#8217;s causal.<\/p>\n<p>So today let us celebrate IP, which accounts for over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobalipcenter.com\/ip-employs-innovation\/\" target=\"_blank\">40 million American jobs<\/a>, rewards innovation, incentivizes inventiveness and helps ensure safe and genuine products for consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join CFIF in celebrating World IP Day! Over more than two centuries, the U.S. has become the most innovative, prosperous and powerful nation in human history, without even remote competition.\u00a0 What nation in all of recorded history rivals our array of patented advancements, from the light bulb to powered flight to computer technology to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2871,2872,4857],"class_list":["post-23744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-intellectual-property","tag-ip","tag-world-ip-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23745,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23744\/revisions\/23745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}