Some proponents of more aggressive enforcement against executives point to court rulings that have permitted the prosecution of company officials who should have known that fraud was occurring on their watch.
In my view, additional enforcement efforts above this point are likely to be subject to rapidly diminishing returns, both in reducing the rate of piracy and increasing copyright holder revenues.
The latter incident, where the employee followed up with law enforcement, is an important point to note.
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At some point, law enforcement agents are able to seize the suspect.
Arabs and Muslims have become a foreign-policy issue, an argument on the domestic agenda, a law-enforcement priority, and a point of well-meaning concern.
Unfortunately, copyright holders have proven willing if not eager to purse a scorched earth strategy to make its point when granted additional enforcement rights.
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On the FAA's website, the reason listed for the restriction is "to provide a safer environment for law-enforcement activities, " and the point of contact listed for the restriction is an FBI special agent.
Petitions must state specifically which law enforcement agencies are making the petition, a responsible official for each agency making the petition, and a point of contact for the coalition of interested law enforcement agencies.
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More to the point, New York law enforcement officers are at the cutting edge of policing terror.
That is important, said Curran, because fighting bioterrorism is at this point as much a matter of law enforcement as medicine.
She said family members made a point not to change their phone numbers so that law enforcement officials could reach them in case of any developments, even years later.
If at some point Congress or the administration does pursue further intellectual property enforcement in legislation, trade agreements or other policy, the key first step should be a clear assessment of the scope and nature of the problem so that the policy is appropriate and makes sense.
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"If we think that for society as a whole it is important to have ring-fencing, both from a financial stability point of view and from a cultural point of view, I absolutely agree it should have strong enforcement and strong incentives in order for this to happen, " said the chief executive.
West Africa, has increasingly become a point favoured by Latin American drug cartels because of weak local law enforcement and a largely unsupervised coastline.
"GE bent the accounting rules beyond the breaking point, " said Ms. Schapiro's then-director of enforcement, Robert Khuzami, in an official news release.
With a high profile case on a slow burn people are watching to see where the line gets drawn between an idea as a critical gestation point that should be totally protected by patents, ideas as a gestation point we can deal with respectfully, and protect and nurture without legal enforcement, and the ideas are ten a penny attitude.
To make their point even sharper, regulators released a nine-page-long list of enforcement actions brought against brokers involving sales of variable annuities.
Greenpeace's Indradi says Brazil's strong point has been to implement better forest governance, backed up with good monitoring and serious law enforcement.
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