World Intellectual Property Day 2025, the OAPI vibrates to the rhythm of music
Interpretations of a few successful songs, a range of exchanges and an audience who came in large numbers, the OAPI joined the World Intellectual Property Organization (PI) and to all PI offices around the world, to celebrate this April 25, World Intellectual Property Day.
Symphony Pi and Music
It is in an auditorium transformed both into a amphitheater and a musical scene that on behalf of the director general of the OAPI, the deputy director general Mondésir Oualou Panouala gave the "the" of the meeting. By his few words pronounced, he has the foundations for a framework for exchanges and entertainment, a pioneer of new strategic approaches to the development of the music industry, integrating the PI in Cameroon and in the member states.
Rhythm to reach the useful to the pleasant
Celebrated on April 26 of each year, this 2025 edition has the theme "Pi and music: vibrate to the rhythm of the PI". In declination, the OAPI commemorated this day around a theme relating to the understanding of the PI in the music industry, in order to highlight the way in which the rights of Pi enhance the work of music artists and other actors of the chain of musical value. Some music notes and enriching exchanges,
• The expert in PI Moisté Stéphane Afana Medang, a lawyer scores marked at the OAPI, built the audience on the various aspects of the PI in connection with music;
• Copyright expert and neighboring rights, Pr Joseph Fomeuteu, has maintained protection mechanisms allowing rights holders to control the use of their works and ensure the reward that due to them;
• Dr. Francis Ateh Bazore, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Cameroonian National Society of Musical Art (SONACAM), intervened on the management of fees for the benefit of the authors in order to ensure a substantial reward for their work and,
• The cultural promoter Guy-Marc Tony Mefe has thrown himself on the challenges faced by artists and other professionals in the music industry.
Awareness at the heart of the profession
Complexity and changes in music business at different facets of the field, including cinema, video games, entertainment industry or artificial intelligence, it was important to build on the need to protect original musical creations to make the sector profitable. PI professional, students of music schools, artists or cultural promoters, including members of collective management organizations, the room was at its height.
A ceremony to encourage the development of the creative industry
The event laid the groundwork for a call for more professionalism aimed at:
• Awaken the interest of artists on the impact that can have a judicious use of the PI on the valuation of creations;
• Arouse reflections on the actions to be taken to help musicians and other actors in the industry to live from their work
• Support a dynamic and fair music industry in the digital age,
• Encourage creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship in musical production. The day ended on an ounce of general satisfaction whose echo was resounding.
