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| Nearly Half of Canadians Worry About Mistakenly Buying Counterfeit Goods Online this Holiday Season |
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| Seventy-five per cent of Canadians will shop online this holiday season, but nearly half are concerned about mistakenly buying counterfeit goods like toys, clothing, video games and software |
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| ICC’s BASCAP launches Intellectual Property Guidelines in Latin America |
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| ICC’s Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP) group today launched a set of intellectual property (IP) guidelines designed to help businesses in Latin America protect their copyright and branded materials, and deter trade in counterfeit and pirated goods. |
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| Study shows most consumers buy counterfeit goods with little remorse |
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| A new report released today reveals that 80% of consumers spanning the developed and developing world regularly purchase counterfeit and pirated products, showing little remorse or fear of the consequences, including potential health and safety risks to themselves or their families. |
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| A new study, conducted by Frontier Economics highlights the negative impact of counterfeiting and piracy on governments, taxpayers and consumers |
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| Turkish police seized millions of bootleg CDs, books |
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| According to statistics more than 10,000 people were arrested during 9500 operations |
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| Can streaming end illegal filesharing? |
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| Streaming video is booming online – 64% of internet users watch video clips. |
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| Survey reveals European views on counterfeits |
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| One in 20 Europeans suspect they have received a counterfeit prescription drug and 1 per cent believe they definitely have, according to consumer research group ICM. |
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| The Mint report for 26 November 2009 |
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| The government has finally arrived at an estimate of the number of spurious drugs for sale in India. After a survey that took one year, the health ministry has concluded that just 0.046% of all medicines available in retail outlets are fake. |
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| Counterfeit software reports soar: Microsoft |
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| Reports of counterfeit software, much of it tainted with computer viruses, have doubled during the past two years, according to Microsoft. |
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