Press Release: Jowell And Hewitt announce pan-European IP conference

The UK Culture Secretary, Tessa Jowell and the UK Trade and Industry Secretary, Patricia Hewitt, on 2 February 2005, gave Government backing to a major pan-European conference on Intellectual Property (IP), which will seek to find 21st century solutions to protect our creativity, ideas and innovation. The Creative Economy conference on the 5-7 October, will bring together industry, consumers, creators and policy makers from across Europe to explore ways of placing creativity at the heart of our economies and will highlight the absolute necessity of protecting Europe's intellectual property. It will be held under the auspices of the UK's EU Presidency and has the support of the European Commission. The conference will focus on five key themes: education, creativity, business opportunities, enforcement and access.