Moussa urges protection of intellectual
property in Arab states
Egypt, Politics, 4/19/2000

Foreign Minister Amr Moussa has pressed for more focus on issues related to intellectual property protection in Arab countries through modernizing national institutions concerned.

In a speech to the three-day conference which opened in Cairo today under the auspices of First Lady Suzanne Mubarak, to discuss copy rights protection, Moussa highlighted the economic side of intellectual property rights in terms of their integration into a global trade system involving competition among those most fit to export their ideas.

Moussa, whose speech was read out on his behalf by Mustafa El-Feqi, his assistant for Arab affairs and Egypt`s chief delegate to the Arab League, cited Egypt's 1954 law on protecting copy rights and its latest amendment in 1994, as proof of the country`s pioneering interest in the subject.

Also speaking before the conference was Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni, who said his ministry has set up a permanent office for copy rights protection. He added one of the major developments in this field was the amendment of the 1954 law to include further protection of other intellectual activities and harshen penalties for violators.

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