IP owners, government enforcement agencies, and WIPO met in Paris last week for the Sixth Global Congress Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy.  Three themes that were repeated throughout the meeting were 1) the need to convince the public to have a greater respect for IP; 2) counterfeits pose a threat to health, safety, and economic growth; and 3) all stakeholders, public and private, national, regional and global, need to cooperate together to address the problems of counterfeits and piracy.  BASCAP released a report predicting that the annual economic impact of counterfeiting and piracy will equal $1.7 trillion dollars in 2015.

I took notes on the plenaries and the breakout sessions I attended, and they are here:

Here is some of the news coverage received by the Global Congress: