 While sport has become an economic activity, the financing of its professional branch is more and more tributary for protection and commercialization, effective of intellectual property activities, this session aims to improve the understanding of the importance of intellectual property for the development of professional sports and the organization of large sports demonstrations. When we talk about professional sports events, we are talking about the protection of IP because the owners, the right owners of the event are the ones that sell this property and the investors, of course, want to have their brands attached to these sports events and talking about this, we are talking about the protection of IP rights. In Brazil, as we all know, football is the first, the second, the third most important sports event and we have been improving all the rules that are necessary for the protection of this huge event that is important as we discussed here in the conference for the social and economic development. Intellectual property is very important for sport. Firstly, in order to organize sporting events, it is necessary to pay for such organization and one has to generate money in order to be able to do that. For example, with respect to the Olympic Games, we get a large sum of money from broadcast rights. We also get money from sponsorship and from merchandising and in those areas, it is very important that exclusivity be protected. Obviously, a broadcaster will not pay large sums of money to broadcast the event if others can broadcast the event for free. Similarly, with sponsorship, the companies to whom we grant sponsorship rights expect to have exclusivity. Otherwise, they would not pay large sums of money as well. You have to have law and order and you have to protect intellectual property. Otherwise, people may focus more on unlawfully using other people's ideas and that is not good for the world. I think we have to reward the people who are thinking of ideas, who are being creative and innovative and for this reason, I believe it is very important that intellectual property be protected. This conference comes in honor for Africa because, thinking about intellectual property, it should help us to use the resources that offer intellectual property to develop or finance the sport in Africa. The strategy is to often regroup, talk, discuss, form and make sure that Africans understand what intellectual property is and it is appropriated.