US puts India in "priority watch list" for copyright piracy

[OhioChick]

Source: Zee News-India

Washington, May 02: India, China, Russia and nine other nations have been targetted by the United States for failing to sufficiently protect American producers of music, movies and other copyrighted material from widespread piracy.

The Bush administration on Monday placed the 12 countries on a "priority watch list", which will subject them to extra scrutiny and could eventually lead to economic sanctions if the administration decides to bring trade cases before the World Trade Organization.

Another 31 countries were placed on lower level monitoring lists, indicating the concerns about copyright violations in those nations did not warrant the highest level of scrutiny.

The annual report, known as a "Special 301 Report," for the section of US trade law that it covers, said that China has a special stake in upgrading its protection of intellectual property rights, given that its companies will be threatened by rampant copyright piracy as they increase their own innovation.


Read more: http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=368995&sid=BUS&ssid=51

[Benhurst]

1. Not to worry.

BushAmerica is on the skids. It won't be long now before we're ripping them off with cheap copies of what they have invented.

[bemildred]

2. This takes impotent posturing to a whole new level. nt

[Buns_of_Fire]

3. Aw, c'mon. We're getting all those nice, juicy mangoes, aren't we?

Ummmmm, yummy. Mix 'em with some melamine, and our unemployed will soon have the next best thing to Soylent Green!