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| Kenya: Bill Proposes Hefty Fines for Dealers in Illicit Goods |
All |
| Dealers in counterfeits risk either 15 years in jail or stiff fines - five times the value of the fake goods |
Kenya |
06/09/2008 |
CIB-7-4477 |
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| Canada Wants Tougher Copyright Law to Combat Piracy |
Downloading |
| The Canadian government plans to strengthen copyright laws to deter piracy over the Web, giving companies more control over the use of content and making it illegal to break digital locks on songs and other works. |
Canada |
06/12/2008 |
CIB-7-4493 |
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| France gets closer to 'three strikes' downloader web ban |
Downloading |
| The globalisation of internet law continues apace, as French legislators press ahead next week with the "loi Hadopi". |
France |
06/12/2008 |
CIB-7-4489 |
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| Spanish execs urge ISPs to fight piracy |
Downloading |
| Spain's film industry execs at the Madrid de Cine Spanish film screenings on Monday called on the government to take the lead in fighting piracy by forcing Internet service providers to protect rights-holders' content. |
Spain |
06/09/2008 |
CIB-7-4481 |
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| Swedish Left Party Wants to Legalize Piracy |
Downloading |
| This Sunday, the Swedish Left Party voted in favor of a motion calling for the legalization of sharing copyrighted files for personal use. |
Sweden |
06/09/2008 |
CIB-7-4473 |
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| Virgin territory for ISPs |
Downloading |
| Bill Thompson believes Virgin Media has decided it likes record companies more than its customers. |
UK |
06/09/2008 |
CIB-7-4472 |
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| Senate Hearing on Net Neutrality Raises New Piracy Concerns |
Downloading |
| "Ultimately ... some bureaucrat is going to have to define, at the very detailed level of the technology, what kinds of network management are acceptable." |
USA |
06/09/2008 |
CIB-7-4480 |
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| Akunyili Wants Life Sentence For Fake Drug Dealers |
Pharmaceuticals |
| Director-general of NAFDAC, Prof. Dora Akunyili, yesterday in Abuja called for life sentence, with no option of fine, for fake and counterfeit drug dealers. |
Nigeria |
06/09/2008 |
CIB-7-4476 |
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| EMEA ideas for preventing heparin-like contaminations |
Pharmaceuticals |
| The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has urged for greater international cooperation as it outlined how to prevent a repeat of the heparin crisis. |
WW |
06/09/2008 |
CIB-7-4478 |
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| Who Calls for Strong, Reliable Medicines Regulatory Authority |
Pharmaceuticals |
| THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for a strong, reliable and well equipped medicines regulatory authority to curb unsafe and counterfeit medicines which are flooding the local market. |
Zambia |
06/12/2008 |
CIB-7-4490 |
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| China vows harsher punishment on piracy amid "grave" situation |
Piracy |
| China is to inflict harsher punishment on piracy, a senior copyright official said here Friday, while admitting the phenomena remained "grave" in the country. |
China |
6/13/2008 |
CIB-7-4495 |
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