Global internet piracy is growing rapidly in spite of stricter piracy laws in the US and the potential for harsh penalties. In three key regions – North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific – 23.8% of internet bandwidth is used for piracy. The same study found that, in those three regi...
Piracy is a crime with ancient origins. As long as there have been ships at sea, pirates have sought to steal from them. Internationally, laws against piracy have ancient origins, too, but U.S. law developed chiefly in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. The power to criminalize piracy ...
Springer USJournal of Cultural EconomicsOrme, T. (2014). The short- and long-term effectiveness of anti-piracy laws and enforcement actions. Journal of Cultural Economics, 38 (4), 351–368.Orme, Tyler. 2014. "The Short- and Long-Term Effectiveness of Anti-Piracy Laws and Enforcement ...
Christine Maury Panis, VO’s EVP, General Counsel and Public Affairs, on piracy in 2020, the impact of Covid-19, and how video piracy laws need to evolve. When it comes to examining the legal situation regarding video piracy there is good news and there is bad news. The good news is...
TORONTO (The Hollywood Reporter) — In the wake of an Australian court ruling that the operators of P2P service Kazaa authorized copyright infringement, Canadian music labels on Sept. 6 urged Ottawa to toughen this country’s Internet piracy laws. “The law that is currently on the books — ...
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Even in the East, pirates built intricate networks of power, with pirate chieftains acting as de facto rulers of coastal communities. They levied taxes, provided protection, and even enacted their own laws. The formidable pirate queen Zheng Yi Sao, who commanded a fleet larger than many nations...
For another, a host of dealers gain the more profit through catering to the customers’ habit of paying less for the same thing. Thus piracy become a common practice. As a result of the popularity of piracy, people get the poor quality of the things while the dealers break the laws and...
Jiang said Chinese courts would continue to intensify efforts to enforce IPR laws in the coming few years, adding "the number of criminal cases of IPR infringement is likely to rise in the second half of this year due to the promulgation of the new judicial interpretation late last year which...
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