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Objective of the consultation The European Commission is launching a public hearing on the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in third countries.The results of this public hearing will be taken into account by the Directorate General for Trade in reviewing the Strategy for the enforcement of IP rights in third countries . […]
Anil Varghese, Director of the Original Software Initiative, Microsoft India was recently interviewed for the Indian News outfit COIL. He told the interviewer that “software piracy rates in India have declined from 74 per cent to 65 per cent in the last seven years,” but “global losses from piracy and counterfeiting account for approximately $1 […]
IP Enforcement Roundup EU Advocate General: ISPs Cannot Be Required to Block or Filter Content The European internet service provider Scarlet Extended has appealed a court order that it block the file sharing of copyrighted music. In this context, the EU Advocate General Cruz Villalón has advised: “the Court of Justice should declare that EU […]
The European internet service provider Scarelet Extended has appealed a court order that it block the file sharing of copyrighted music. In this context, the EU Advocate General Cruz Villalón has advised: “the Court of Justice should declare that EU law precludes a national court from making an order, on the basis of the Belgian […]
Yesterday the Broadband Breakfast Club hosted a panel discussion titled “The Costs of Global Intellectual Property Piracy: How Can the Phenomenon Be Empirically Quanitified?” The event featured speakers who have conducted studies for GAO and the IIPI, two representatives from private companies, and PIJIP’s Sean Flynn. Click here to view the webcast. Loren Yager, Director […]
Last week Inside US Trade reported that Trans Pacific Partnership negotiators meeting in Singapore combined all of the existing proposals for an intellectual property Chapter into one working, and highly bracketed, text. The combined text has not been released, but three previous proposals have been leaked (see the proposals from: Chile, New Zealand, and the […]
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