Google has argued that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, an intellectual property law created in 1998, allows sites to host copyrighted content if they aren't aware of it, don't profit from it and remove it at the copyright holder's request.

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This is especially true as the last decade has seen an explosion of vigorous enforcement of intellectual property rights, often in ways that fly in the face of the purpose of copyright to begin with.

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Noting ASEAN's commitment to the ASEAN Intellectual Property Rights Action Plan 2011-2015, we looked forward to the progress resulting from cooperation and capacity-building in fighting trademark counterfeiting and copyright piracy and to the development and strengthening of intellectual property rights regimes.

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The United States has long accused India of dragging its feet on introducing intellectual property rights, and sought assurances in the last round of trade talks that India would pass laws that would enforce US copyright laws in India.

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