Where would we be without IP? by Gideon Caturla “IP is here to protect these creators and foster further innovation from the tech and arts community.”
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umanity’s potential for innovation and creativity is seen throughout the history of the human race. We only have to look at the creations that the world’s inventors and designers have created to understand how far our collective level of technological progress has been made. It’s incredible to think of all the inventions that have come before our time and the inventions that will come in the near future. It is through these creations that we prove to ourselves that existing problems can be solved through inventions and our inner human thoughts can be expressed through art. Innovation and creativity is humanity’s hallmark. It is what sets us apart from all the animals on Earth. It begs the question where would we be without intellectual property (IP) stimulating such innovation and creativity? Why IP? Because intellectual property promotes innovation and creativity through laws that protect creations, recognises creation ownership and regulates business investment or interactions with these creations. A world without IP would be a world that would be
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