MUMBAI: The anti-piracy wing of the Indian Music Industry (IMI) today organised a training programme for police officers of Maharashtra to raise their awareness about intellectual property rights (IPR) and the importance of its protection.
The programme attended by over 100 police officials included officers across all cadres. Raising concerns over the protection of India‘s intellectual property, IMI discussed the importance of creating awareness about copyright laws amongst police officials.
IMI claims that it has been regularly conducting training programmes on IP enforcement in India and had the distinction of conducting 150 training programmes in different parts of the country during last year with the twin purpose of training the ground level police officers and explaining to them importance of the enforcement of IPR laws in the country in the national and international context.
Intellectual Property (IP) is defined “as any original creative work manifested in a tangible or intangible form that should be legally protected.”
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