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| Bulgaria Out of US Piracy Blacklist |
All |
| Bulgaria has been taken out of the infamous US blacklist of intellectual property villains and producers of fake goods. |
Bulgaria |
05/02/2007 |
CIB-7-2561 |
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| Ethiopia: Office Highlights Need for Protecting Intellectual Property |
All |
| The protection of ideas, concepts and other intangibles as part of business or artistic innovation fell under the spotlight this week as Ethiopia marked the Intellectual Property Day. |
Ethiopia |
04/30/2007 |
CIB-7-2542 |
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| IP Organizations Tackle Copyright Issues in Jordan |
All |
| "Jordan National Library dealt with 1724 counterfeiting cases and referred them to courts. This increase indicates our dedication in minimizing the effects of this 'crime'," |
Jordan |
05/01/2007 |
CIB-7-2556 |
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| The Pirate Bay to start pay site |
All |
| The Pirate Bay, one of the most popular and well-known public torrent tracker sites has announced it will start a new music download site in which the user pays whatever they can afford to download the tracks. |
Sweden |
4/30/2007 |
CIB-7-2552 |
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| FSB backs intellectual property protection boost |
All |
| The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has backed the recent government plans to assist small firms in protecting their intellectual property. |
UK |
04/30/2007 |
CIB-7-2541 |
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| G8 to address piracy and Customs |
All |
| Next month's G8 summit meeting in Heiligendamm, Germany will discuss new measures to tackle counterfeiting, and in particular how to strengthen border control. |
WW |
05/01/2007 |
CIB-7-2554 |
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| Grand IP seminar coming |
All |
| THE World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), based in Geneva, Switzerland, is organising a forum on intellectual property to be held in the country later this year. |
WW |
05/05/2007 |
CIB-7-2582 |
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| Counterfeit culture |
Artwork |
| Roughly 3,000 painters live and work in a neighborhood in this southern China region, a giant art factory that churns out fake Van Goghs and Rembrandts the way McDonald's cranks out burgers. |
China |
04/30/2007 |
CIB-7-2538 |
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| Nintendo Warns Korea Against Piracy |
Electronics |
| The giant game maker Nintendo has given Korea a strong warning against piracy of its game consoles and programs here. |
Korea |
05/04/2007 |
CIB-7-2577 |
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| US not cooperating with China on film distribution |
Movies |
| The copyright authorities of the United States are not cooperating with Chinese websites in getting access to movies to broadcast online |
USA / China |
04/30/2007 |
CIB-7-2536 |
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| 'Spider-Man 3' vanquishes bootleggers |
Movies |
| Sony Pictures' efforts to curb the availability of black market copies seem to have worked. |
WW |
05/04/2007 |
CIB-7-2575 |
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| Musician hurts at the cut of piracy |
Music |
| DESPITE complaining to the Anti-Corruption Unit about it, local musician Kurubale Malumu feels he is being cheated out of his rightful income by people who are stealing his work. |
Fiji |
05/05/2007 |
CIB-7-2581 |
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| India lacks resources, will to stop fake-drug industry |
Pharmaceuticals |
| Nobody is sure of the extent of India's fake-drugs industry, but what is for sure is that the country neither has the enforcement resources nor... |
India |
05/03/2007 |
CIB-7-2570 |
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| Thai company joins global piracy fight |
Software |
| Antipiracy club the Business Software Alliance (BSA) has welcomed its first Thai member, Thai Software Enterprise, makers of the widely used (and widely pirated) Genius accounting package. |
Thailand |
05/01/2007 |
CIB-7-2546 |
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