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Israel Remains on US Priority Watch List
May 4, 2008
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Israel Remains on the U.S. “Priority Watch List” – Allegedly for Copyright Piracy
May 1, 2007The US published their “Special 301 Report” on Monday, targeting 12 Countries including Israel for copyright piracy monitoring.
Officially, the United States claims that the countries on the “priority watch list” are there for failing to sufficiently protect American producers of music, movies and other copyrighted material from widespread copyright piracy, which the US contends costs American industry billions of dollars in lost sales annually.
“We must defend ideas, inventions and creativity from rip-off artists and thieves,”
said U.S. Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab in a statement accompanying the report.
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The US is to Bring China to the WTO for Arbitration on IP Rights
April 11, 2007U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab has announced that the United States will bring China to the World Trade Organization for dispute-settlement talks concerning intellectual property rights.
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