The EC Directorate General for Trade is reviewing its Strategy for the Enforcement of Intellectual Property rights in Third Countries, and it plans to update its current policy with “the adoption of a new Commission...
Read MoreSenator Leahy introduced the PROTECT-IP Act (S. 968) on May 12, designed to combat websites “dedicated to infringing activities.” The legislation is cosponsored by Sens. Schumer, Feinstein, Whitehouse, Graham, Kohl Coons, and...
Read MoreSen. Klobuchar has introduced legislation that would make illegal streaming of copyrighted materials a felony. This was one of the legislative recommendations made in the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator’s report...
Read MoreIP Enforcement Roundup USTR Releases Special 301 Report On Monday May 2, USTR published the 2011 Special 301 Report, available here. After examining 77 countries, it included 12 on the Priority Watch List, 28 on the Watch list,...
Read MoreVPR International, a Canadian content producer, has filed a complaint against 1,017 Doe defendants for distributing its copyrighted material online. The Doe defendants are identified only by their IP addresses, so VPR sought an...
Read MoreA group of musicians led by Alki David, founder of the streaming service FilmOn.com, has sued CNET and its parent company, CBS Interactive, for distributing LimeWire and other peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing systems. The...
Read MoreOn Monday Amy 2, USTR published the 2011 Special 301 Report, available here. After examining 77 countries, it included 12 on the Priority Watch List, 28 on the Watch list, and under “Section 306 monitoring.” Most of the...
Read MoreIP Enforcement Roundup USTR to Release Special 301 Report Today USTR has scheduled the release of the 2011 Special 301 Report for today. All of the comment received by USTR in this year’s Special 301 Report, including both...
Read MoreInside U.S. Trade reports that USTR intends to table a full intellectual property chapter for the TPP by mid June, and that the pharmaceutical industry has been lobbying to reverse the policy deal struck by the Bush...
Read MoreThe European Commission’s Directorate-General for Trade has released a working paper that responds to a February “Opinion of European Academics on the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.” The Opinion signed...
Read MoreNew legislation introduced by New York City Council Member Margaret Chin would criminalize the purchase of counterfeit goods at the consumer level. According to her press release, “The bill … will make it a Class A misdemeanor...
Read MoreIP Enforcement Roundup Consumers International IP Watchlist 2011 Consumers International has published its annual IP Watchlist, which “assesses the fairness of the world’s intellectual property laws and enforcement...
Read MoreConsumers International has published its third annual IP Watchlist, which “assesses the fairness of the world’s intellectual property laws and enforcement practices from an important yet under-represented...
Read MoreOn April 20, the Brazilian Ministry of Culture announced it is seeking comments on its draft legislation that would reform the copyright bill, which will be accepted until May 20. Its notice requesting comments on the...
Read MoreKnowledge Ecology International has posted the written answers submitted to the Senate Finance Committee by US Trade Representative Ron Kirk after his March 9 testimony. In his responses to questions from Sen. Wyden, Kirk...
Read MoreAnil 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...
Read MoreIP 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreYesterday 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...
Read MoreLast 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...
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