WIPOUT is an an international organisation consisting of academics, artists, and other activists. It is launching the Intellectual Property Counter-Essay Contest on its website. This is in response to the World Intellectual Property Organisation’s (WIPO’s) own competition announced earlier this year. The counter contest is intended to challenge the over-protection of intellectual property (IP) which is doing much damage to education, health care, the environment, and economic security for millions around the world.
Applicants are being asked to address the same topic that WIPO has posed: What does intellectual property mean to you in your daily life? Essays are available online.
The website also has a space for shorter ‘Point of View’ pieces on the same topic. WIPOUT’s contest will continue from 4 September until 15 March 2002.