The work of the Third World Professional Forum “The Book. Culture. Education. Innovations” is reviewed in brief. Main attention is given to the 24-th International Conference “Libraries and Information Resources in the Modern World of Science, Culture, Education and Business” and the Second General Conference of the National Library Association “Libraries of the Future”. Several events are addressed in particular, namely the open press conference, open meeting of the Interdepartmental Coordination Council for National Subscription: “Analysis of the national access to the Web of Science - initial results”: “Providing access to full-text databases - from subscription to open licensing”; the joint event of the Federal Agency for Intellectual Property (ROSPATENT) and the RF Ministry of Education and Science “Intellectual property - the Foundation for the Knowledge Society”; special event by Moscow and St. Petersburg public libraries; The Day of Libraries of the Russian Railways Company, and intellectual show “To the barriers!”
Has Creativity Died in the Third World? Some Implications of the Internationalization of Intellectual Property
