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WIPO has published a series of tools for some of the largest creative sectors.

Making a living in the creative industries means many different things to different people. For some it represents an ideal of creative freedom, for others a business strategy. Individual motivations and roles are as varied as the activities that make up the creative industries - a sector that includes a range of activities from architecture to production of video games.

How do different creative sectors use IP?

WIPO has published a series of tools for some of the largest creative sectors.

These are comprehensive guides to the history, structure, operating principles and rights management arrangements of entire industries, from inception of creative ideas to the ways in which individual consumers interact with those ideas now and for the future.

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Final remarks

THE CREATIVE ECONOMY, OF WHICH COPYRIGHT AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES ARE A PART, DESCRIBES AN ENTIRE SYSTEM OF RELATIONSHIPS IN THE POST-INDUSTRIAL

Knowledge-based economy where creativity is an essential feature and driving factor for competitiveness and economic growth. It represents a new, global awareness of the role of creativity and innovation. This model is entirely underpinned by intellectual property rights and their contribution to economic, social and cultural development.

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Additional resources

 “British Invasion: Importing the United Kingdom’s orphan works solution to United States copyright law.” Northwestern University Law Review

Copyright Act 1998.

Cultural Times – The First Global Map of Cultural and Creative Industries

Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (2009).
2009 UNESCO Framework for Cultural Statistics. 

www.uis.unesco.org/culture/Documents/framework-cultural-statistics-culture-2009-en.pdf

 Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (as amended 28 September 1979) 

www.wipo.int/treaties/en/text.jsp?file_id=283698

Copyright-based Industries:
Assessing their Weight. 

www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2005/03/article_0012.html

Managing Intellectual
Property in the Book Publishing Industry.
 

www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/copyright/868/wipo_pub_868.pdf

Rights, Camera, Action! IP
Rights and the Film-Making Process. 

www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/copyright/869/wipo_pub_869.pdf

WIPO and National Copyright Administration of the People’s Republic of China (2010). Study on the Impact of Enhanced Copyright Protection on the Development of the Textile Market in Nantong, China. 

www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/copyright/en/performance/pdf/impact_textile_market.pdf

From Script to Screen: The Importance of Copyright in the Distribution
of Films. 

www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/copyright/950/wipo_pub_950.pdf

How to Make a Living from Music (second edition). 

www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/copyright/939/wipo_pub_939.pdf

Mastering the Game: Business
and Legal Issues for Video Game Developers.
 

www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/copyright/959/wipo_pub_959.pdf

Monetization of Copyright Assets by Creative Enterprises. 

www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/copyright/955/wipo_pub_955.pdf

Managing Intellectual Property in the Advertising Industry.
 

www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/copyright/1021/wipo_pub_1021.pdf

Study on the Economic Contribution of the Software Industry in Lebanon. 

www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/copyright/en/performance/pdf/econ_contribution_lb.pdf

WIPO and International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (2014).
International Survey on Text and Image
Copyright Levies. 

www.ifrro.org/sites/default/files/levies_2014_online.pdf

WIPO Studies on the Economic Contribution of the Copyright Industries:
 

www.wipo.int/copyright/en/performance

Guide on Surveying the Economic Contribution of the Copyright
Industries. 

www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/copyright/893/wipo_pub_893.pdf

WIPO webpage on Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights: 

www.wipo.int/copyright/en/management