Georgia tackles copyright infringement in universities
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Georgia is aiming to tackle plagiarism and copyright infringement in education field by cooperating with top experts from Poland.
Specialists from the Polish company Plagiat.pl and Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Georgia Giorgi Sharvashidze met today to discuss subjects of using technology for solving issues of copyright protection in academic environment.
The visiting team of Executive Director Sebastian Kawczynski and other members from the organisation shared with the Georgian side their experience in protecting high standards of education by preventing plagiarism among students.
The company members also had the experience of creating legislation for compulsory verification of bachelor's and master's degree works before their approval.
Plagiat.pl worked with more than 230 universities across the world on issues of plagiarism and was the leading organisation on the matter in Poland and Romania.
The Plagiat.pl online antiplagiarism system was created by the Polish experts in 2002 "in response to the common problem of using the "copy- paste” method by students in their theses and dissertations," the company said.
Beside universities in Poland and Romania the system was also used by institutions in Germany and Colombia.
A new online intellectual property (IP) filing service is making it easier for Georgian and foreign entrepreneurs to register their creations online and avoid someone stealing their intellectual property.
The Motion Picture Association of America has welcomed the creation of the Anti-Piracy Centre of Georgia, a body tasked with countering distribution of pirated versions of digital media on websites hosted in the country.
Georgian prime minister Irakli Garibashvili on Friday discussed “fruitful cooperation”, ongoing and future projects with Daren Tang, the director general of the World Intellectual Property Organisation in a Tbilisi meeting, the government administration said.