- U.S. government panel is tracking countries who are into digital piracy under ‘International Piracy Watch List’
- The impact will be on ‘out-of-cycle’ intellectual property review that the Office of the U.S Trade Representative will conduct on India later this year
- This list will track stealing the hard work of American creators and the countries and will pay attention and expect trading partners to safeguard intellectual property
- Watch list on other countries are China, Russia and Switzerland and India present a seriously flawed environment in promoting copyright and intellectual property
- Despite large creative industry in film, music India lags badly in both legal and frame work for IP protection
- Study reports piracy levels in India remained at 60 per cent, with nearly $2.9 billion of unlicensed software being installed in 2013
- Read at: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-business/us-government-panel-puts-india-on-piracy-watch-list/article6149754.ece
Exams Perspective:
- IPRs
- International Piracy Watch List
- Copyright