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Intellectual Property: U.S. claims victory in WTO complaint on China piracy, China vows copyright cooperation

The United States claimed victory recently in a groundbreaking World Trade Organization case against China for failing to protect and enforce copyrights and trademarks on a wide range of goods. 'Today, a WTO panel found that a number of deficiencies in China's IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) regime are incompatible with its WTO obligations,' acting U.S. Trade Representative Peter Allgeier said in a statement. The International Intellectual Property Alliance, a coalition of U.S. music, movie, book and software industry groups, conservatively estimates that piracy in China costs them more than $3.7 billion in lost sales. The WTO ruling means China and other nations 'can't simply go through the motions' of protecting intellectual property, but must provide effective results, Neil Turkewitiz, an executive vice president at the Recording Industry Association of America, said in a statement...
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Intellectual Property: China Will Issue Intellectual Property Rights Strategy

Wang Ziqiang, director of the Copyright Management Division of National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC), announced that China would officially issue its national intellectual property rights strategy in 2008 to define the principles, development directions and achievements in intellectual property rights protection. Wang said that the year of 2008 would be a significant year for China, because China's intellectual property right protection would enter a new period of receiving supervision from all the WTO members under the principles of WTO now that the interim period for China's copyrights was going to conclude...
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