9 知识产权与国际消费者权益日.doc

9. The Intellectual Property Rights&The International Consumers’ Day
To affect change,there needs to be a motivation1 to change; there has to be a concept of how to change and then there has to be a means and program of implementation2 of this change. This applies as we narrow it down to the issue of counterfeiting3 and to the issue of counterfeiting intellectual property rights as well.
At this NPC in Beijing in front of about 2000 people associated with the governments of China, for the first time, intellectual property rights was addressed to the NPC by a scholar. This week anizations around the world celebrate consumer rights' day and this celebration marks the day in 1962 that then President of United States John F. Kennedy proposed a Consumer Bill of Rights. In this speech, President Kennedy identified4 four basic consumer rights: the first was safety, consumers had the right to safe products. The second was right to information: they had the right to be exposed to the information about the product which they buy. The third was the right to choose, to choose to buy or not buy or to buy among several peting products. And the fourth one was the right to be heard, the right to give feedback5 plain and also work in a court system to discuss these products. In modern economies, which are flourishing6 consumer economies, consumers buying goods are the engines that drive eco