Noted author and musician Antonio ‘Boo’ Rudder is charging that government institutions are the ‘biggest abusers of intellectual properties in Barbados’ and he is calling on them to do better.
Speaking during the recent Beyond the Book webinar put on by the National Cultural Foundation via Zoom in recognition of World Book Day, Rudder said it was high time something was done about the lack of respect for intellectual properties.
“The Government is the biggest abuser of intellectual properties in Barbados – the schools and the Government departments. As a matter of fact, only within recent times have we been successful in signing a licence with The University of the West Indies (UWI) Cave Hill Campus,” he explained.
Rudder said ‘there was no respect for intellectual property in Barbados’ and said it was evident because there were many organisations in the country who were using intellectual properties and not paying royalties. (DB)
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