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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8447

23 April 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) united nations/culture
UNESCO celebrates World Book and Copyright Day on 23 April

Brussels, 22/04/2003 (Agence Europe) - By celebrating the World Book and Copyright Day on 23 April 2003, UNESCO seeks to promote reading, the publishing industry and the protection of intellectual property through copyright. The date, 23 April, is a symbolic date for universal literature as not only is it the date when Cervantes, Shakespeare and Garcilaso de la Vega, the so-called "Inca", disappeared (the same year 1616), but it is also the day when other eminent writers such as Maurice...

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