USTR Publishes List of “Notorious Markets”

Yesterday the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) published a report on its review of Notorious Markets, in which it “identifies selected markets, including ones on the Internet, that are reportedly engaged in piracy and counterfeiting, according to information submitted to USTR in response to a request for comments. These are marketplaces that have been the subject of enforcement action or that may merit further investigation for possible intellectual property rights infringements.”  Though it uses the report to highlights markets fingered by IP owners, USTR  notes that the report “does not purport to reflect findings of legal violations.”

USTR Documents:

 

The following companies trade associations and issue groups responded to USTR’s request for comments – Motion Picture Association of America; Deckers Outdoor Corporation; American Apparel & Footwear Association; Recording Industry Association of America; the Intellectual Property Coalition; Kontakte; Major League Baseball Advanced Media; Savelovskiy Trade Center Management; Entertainment Software Association; Business Software Alliance; Burberry Asia; Global Intellectual Property Center (of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce); the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers; AIM Anti-Counterfeiting Committee; and the International Intellectual Property Alliance.  Their comments are posted online at regulations.gov – enter the keyword “USTR-2011-0012” in the search feild on the right to access them.

 

The online and physical markets in the list are:

 

Pay-per-download sites

  • Allofmp3 clones

 

Linking

  • Sogou MP3
  • Gougou

 

B2B and B2C

  • Taobao
  • Modchip.ca
  • Consolesource

 

BitTorrent Indexing

  • ThePirateBay
  • IsoHunt
  • Btjunkie
  • Kat.ph
  • torrentz.eu

 

BitTorrent Trackers

  • Rutracker
  • Demonoid
  • zamunda

 

Social Media Sites

  • vKontakte

 

Cyberlockers

  • Megaupload
  • Putlocker

 

Blogs, Forums, Newsgroups

  • Warez-bb

 

Unlicensed Programming Retransmission

  • TV Ants

 

Physical Markets

  • Bahia Market(Guayaquil, Ecuador)
  • China Small Commodities Market (Yiwu, China)
  • Ciudad del Este (Paraguay)
  • Harco Glodok (Jakarta, Indonesia)
  • La Salada (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
  • Lo Wu Commercial Center (Shenzhen, China)
  • Nehru Place (New Delhi, India)
  • PC Malls (China)
  • Petrivka Market (Kyiv, Ukraine)
  • Quiapo Shopping District (Manila, Philippines)
  • Red Zones (Thailand)
  • San Andresitos (Colombia)
  • Silk Market (Beijing, China)
  • Tepito (Mexico City)
  • Urdu Bazaars (Pakistan)

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  • Mike Palmedo

    Mike Palmedo is the admin for infojustice.org, and he manages interdisciplinary research on copyright exceptions at American University College of Law's Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property. He has Masters degrees Economics and in International Affairs, and is an economics PhD candidate.

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