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in order to create a competitive and strong legislative climate for authors and creative business owners
to establish the UAE’s position as a leading global destination for creative industries.

He added that strengthening international cooperation in protecting copying and cooperation with the
relevant international institutions is necessary to exchange the latest experiences, practices and trends

in this regard, so the UAE has been keen to preact to join international treaties and conclude fruitful
partnerships that would enhance the protection of intellectual property rights and support the growth
of sectors and activities of the sectors Creative, such as culture, arts, music and literature.

Ibn Touq reviewed a set of numbers achieved by the intellectual property sector in the country by the
end of 2024, the most prominent of which is the presence of more than 370 thousand national and

international brands registered in the Emirati markets and more than 21,000 intellectual works
registered in the country, while approximately 24500 thousand requests were received for registration
in the works Intellectual and the total patents registered in the country have reached more than 6100
thousand The patent and 9500 total registered industrial models, indicating that the “Piracy Anti -Poor

Laboratory”, which was launched by the Ministry last year to block the websites that violate intellectual
property rights and copyright and publishing succeeded in blocking 4076,000 violating sites.

On its first day, the conference schedule included discussion sessions that focused on pivotal issues in

the conference, where it held a session entitled “Unauthorized use and its impact on the return of
creative works” with the participation of Dr. Abdul Rahman Al -Muaini, Assistant Undersecretary for the
Intellectual Property Sector at the Ministry of Economy and Jim Alexander, Director of the Publishing

Rights Agency “Ifrro” and Dr. Sharon Wong of the Hong Kong Copyright Licensing Association And Dr.
Muhammad Al -Kamali from “Erra”.

The second session, entitled “Collective Administration as a solution”, witnessed the participation of

both Michael Haley, the executive director of international rights and relations in “CCC”, Sarah Tran
from “IFRRO” and James Bennet Publishing in Argentina.

A third session entitled “Artificial Intelligence and Libraries in the Digital Age” dealt with the impact of

technological developments on the future of libraries and the role of artificial intelligence in promoting