The private right to action requires a company to convince a judge that a foreign site is infringing upon its copyright and intellectual property.
He has no copyright or intellectual property law experience.
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Some of that money could even go back to the copyright holders whose intellectual property is being traded so shamelessly.
One early example is the World Intellectual Property Organisation's copyright treaty of 1996, which strengthened international copyright rules.
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.
The Lanham Act is typically associated with intellectual property rights, such as copyright or trademark protection.
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Copyright and other forms of intellectual property are vital assets to people, companies, nations, and to the global economy.
Intellectual property, which consists of copyright, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets, has always been an important aspect of games.
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The matter is controversial because the intellectual property of software is typically protected through copyright.
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Intellectual property - such as patents, and copyright - is another bugbear.
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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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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The Director-General also stressed the absolute need to respect the provisions of the 1996 Copyright Treaty (WCT) and Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT) adopted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
In her testimony last week before the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, Register Pallante noted the need to review the efficacy of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
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