FIM

Photo: Emmanuel Berrod | Copyright: WIPO

On May 8^th, 2020, the Member States of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) appoint­ed by con­sen­sus Mr Daren Tang as the Organisation’s next Director-​General, with Mr Tang’s six-​year term begin­ning on October 1^st, 2020.

He will suc­ceed Mr Francis Gurry, who has served as Director-​General since October 1^st, 2008.

Mr Tang cur­rent­ly is the Chief Executive of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS). He has also served as Chair of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) for the past two and a half years.

Mr Tang said: “I look for­ward to work­ing with the Member States and staff of WIPO, as well as the many stake­hold­ers in the glob­al IP com­mu­ni­ty, to build our future IP ecosys­tem – one that is bal­anced, inclu­sive and vibrant.”

We hope that this wel­come prox­im­i­ty to our sec­tor will allow WIPO to move towards solu­tions that meet the expec­ta­tions and needs of pro­fes­sion­al musicians

A fine expert in the musi­cal world and a musi­cian him­self, Mr Tang had sev­er­al oppor­tu­ni­ties to express his inter­est in the sit­u­a­tion of per­form­ers in the face of the devel­op­ment of the online music mar­ket. We hope that this wel­come prox­im­i­ty to our sec­tor will allow WIPO to move towards solu­tions that meet the expec­ta­tions and needs of pro­fes­sion­al musi­cians, with regard, in par­tic­u­lar, to the shar­ing of rev­enues gen­er­at­ed by stream­ing services.

FIM con­grat­u­lates Mr Tang on his new appoint­ment and wish­es him every suc­cess as Director-​General of WIPO.