World Anti-Piracy Observatory

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The World Anti-Piracy Observatory (WAPO) is a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) program engineered to help combat copyright infringement, sometimes known as piracy.{{Cite web |date=2010-04-23 |title=Preserving creativity from piracy the focus of UN celebrations for day of books {{!}} UN News |url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2010/04/336212 |access-date=2024-05-31 |website=news.un.org |language=en}} The program, approved in 2005 and initiated in January 2010, is the first web-based platform to gather and disseminate information about anti-infringement activities in the UNESCO Member States. A free, public service regularly updated by various partners, WAPO offers information in English, French and Spanish organized by country.