U.S. MAY FILE PIRACY CHARGES AGAINST CHINA WITH WTO
Friday, April 6 2007
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The United States is preparing to file a piracy complaint against China with the World Trade Organization. It will also file formal objections to China's restrictions on the sale of foreign movies and books, Bloomberg News reported today (Friday), citing three industry officials and one lawyer briefed by the Bush administration. Stephen Green, an economist with Standard Chartered in Shanghai, told the wire service that the U.S. clearly believes that China has "infringed rules that it agreed to play by" when it was admitted into the WTO in 2002. U.S. filmmakers have long complained that China's restrictions on the number of films that may be exhibited in the country have encouraged counterfeiting -- since many Hollywood movies can only be seen on pirated DVDs. Meanwhile, the Chinese government said today that it plans to crack down on merchants caught with as few as 500 pirated DVDs.
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