CHINA REJECTS U.S. COMPLAINT TO WTO

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CHINA REJECTS U.S. COMPLAINT TO WTO
Tuesday, April 17 2007

China today (Tuesday) responded to a U.S. complaint to the World Trade Organization that it has failed to crack down on copyright piracy. Yi Xintian, a spokesman for the State Intellectual Property Office, said that his country "has made tremendous efforts and taken a lot of steps to protect intellectual property rights." Yi argued that piracy is an international issue that affects many countries. He pointed to studies indicating that Canada is responsible for the production of the greatest number of bootleg DVDs. China, he maintained, destroyed 73 million illegally copied DVDs, CDs, software, and books in 2006.

PIRACY WORSENING, SAYS STUDIO COUNSEL
Monday, April 16 2007
Saying that copyright piracy "is getting worse, not better," NBC Universal general counsel Rick Cotton on Friday asked the White House to establish a Cabinet-level piracy czar to deal with the issue. Speaking to a meeting of the American Bar Association, Cotton said that losses due to copyright piracy have reached the billions of dollars. As reported by Daily Variety, he concluded his address by remarking, "Our future economic security deserves a priority comparable to (more)

U.S. MAY FILE PIRACY CHARGES AGAINST CHINA WITH WTO
Friday, April 6 2007
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 (more)