This Guide identifies the main intellectual property (IP) challenges faced by festival organizers and outlines some practical elements of an effective IP management strategy, following a step-by-step approach. It offers suggestions on how to harness a festival’s IP assets and how best to promote respect for the world’s cultures featured at the festival. The Guide provides advice to people organizing folk, arts and cultural festivals, but can also be of interest to festival participants, performers and exhibitors, as well as festival visitors and the general public.

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