Every year, on April 26th, World Intellectual Property Day is celebrated globally to recognize the important role intellectual property (IP) rights play in encouraging creativity and innovation. It’s a day that highlights how these rights support creators and fuel cultural and technological progress across all sectors of society.
In 2025, the theme focuses on the deep connection between Intellectual Property and music – a form of expression that transcends borders and touches every corner of our lives. Whether it’s the melodies that move us or the lyrics that capture our emotions, music shapes our experiences, and Intellectual Property is the backbone that supports its creation and distribution.
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Music doesn’t live only within its own industry—it spreads into film, fashion, video games, technology, and even consumer products. Intellectual Property rights make these cross-industry collaborations possible, helping artists and creators share their work, generate value, and inspire innovation in many fields. Even when we’re not actively listening, music—and the IP that protects it—continues to influence and energize our daily lives.
World IP Day 2025 shines a spotlight on how IP systems empower those behind the music—composers, performers, producers, and innovators—by protecting their works and giving them the opportunity to turn creativity into lasting impact. This year’s theme invites us to appreciate how intellectual property nurtures the vibrant and ever-evolving world of music and supports the people who bring it to life.
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In the context of the proliferation of counterfeit products, which directly impact consumer health worldwide, and on the occasion of World Intellectual Property Day, InfoCons offers consumers the European InfoCons App. The InfoCons App is a free tool that can be used to quickly and directly contact local, national, and international emergency numbers in case consumers experience issues with the products or services they purchase.
The European InfoCons App is available in 33 languages (including Romanian, English, Ukrainian, Turkish, French, Hungarian, Greek, German, Spanish, Italian, Albanian, Catalan, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Icelandic, Irish, Latvian, Macedonian, Faroese, Greenlandic, Luxembourgish, Serbian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Swedish), and supports all citizens by providing useful information in their native language.
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The European InfoCons App provides consumers with useful features such as:
- Scanning barcodes on food products to find out the ingredients, number and types of food additives, allergens, sugar and salt content, and calories;
- Scanning QR codes on energy labels of household appliances and other electronic devices;
- All useful and emergency numbers at local, national, and international levels;
- Real-time alerts for food and non-food products across the European Union.
To find out if a product is counterfeit, InfoCons provides all consumers with the Free European InfoCons App! In the Alerts section of the app, consumers can find out which products have been flagged by the European alert system as counterfeit. Users can also search for suspicious products in the app by entering keywords in the search button of the Alerts section.
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Through the European InfoCons App, consumers have direct and transparent access to non-food product alerts, updated daily and accompanied by details such as:
- Product name
- Target country
- Risk level
- Product origin
- Alert activation date
- Image of the product in question
The InfoCons App is available on all operating systems: iOS, Android, and Huawei.
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