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US AMBASSADOR URBANCIC: PROTECTION OF THESE RIGHTS WILL HELP TURKISH CYPRIOT INTEGRATION

The Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce and the United States Embassy in Lefkosa(Nicosia) have jointly organized a seminar on Intellectual Property Rights.

The seminar took place at the Mustafa Cagatay Conference Room at the Chamber’s Headquarters yesterday.
wide range of issues were discussed during the seminar including the EU perspective, organizational crime, technology in relation to hijacking and imitation products, as referred to in intellectual property rights.
The US Ambassador to Cyprus Frank Urbancic, Matthew Lamberti- the Intellectual Property Law Enforcement Coordinator of the US Department of Justice for Eastern Europe, and some other leading figures from various international companies and offices dealing with hijacking and risk management were among the participants.

Delivering a speech, the vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce Evren Baglarbasi underlined the importance of protecting intellectual property rights for the sake of business development in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

She also stressed the need for achieving further progress on competitiveness.

Another speech was delivered by US Ambassador Urbancic who said Turkish Cypriots should pay particular attention to the protection of intellectual property rights in order to attract investments.

The violation of these rights hinders the economic development, he noted.
Referring to the Cyprus negotiations process in his speech, Mr Urbancic said the conference matters a lot in terms of reaching to the EU standards in North Cyprus as this is what the EU will be asking for in case a positive result is achieved at the talks.

The US provides its support for reaching these standards, he said.
The US Ambassador noted that empowering the intellectual property rights in North Cyprus will help Turkish Cypriots to get integrated with the international community.

In another speech, the Conference Moderator-Lawyer Akan Gurkan complained that the international isolation over North Cyprus has routed out Turkish Cypriots from the latest developments over the protection of these rights.

Gurkan underlined the necessity for bringing related laws up to date.

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French MPs reject controversial plan to crack down on illegal downloaders• Critics feared impact of state surveillance on civil liberties
• Surprise no vote at poorly attended session

Digg it Lizzy Davies in Paris guardian.co.uk, Thursday 9 April 2009 12.40 BST Article historyFrench politicians have unexpectedly rejected a bill that would have cut off the internet connections of anyone found to be repeatedly downloading music or videos without paying for them. The legislation would also have led to the creation of the world's first state surveillance system on web pirates.

The fiercely contested bill was rejected today in a sparsely attended vote in the National Assembly.

The bill had been championed by the president, Nicolas Sarkozy, whose wife, the singer Carla Bruni, has long advocated a crackdown on piracy. On Monday, film director Steven Soderbergh urged US authorities to draw inspiration from the French bill in their fight against piracy.

Under the proposed legislation, new powers would have been granted to music and film companies to enable them to monitor internet users and report illegal downloads to a new copyright protection agency.

Anyone found to have broken the law would have been traced via their IP (internet protocol) address and handed up to three warnings before their connection was severed for up to a year. Offenders would have had to keep paying for their internet connection despite it having been cut off.

Despite the approval of the French recording industry and prominent musicians, including Johnny Hallyday, some attacked the measure.

Civil liberties campaigners and members of the Socialist party said the new surveillance powers were tantamount to "the criminalisation of an entire generation".

Others had said it could end up punishing the wrong people, for instance parents whose children download in secret or employers whose staff use computers at work to break the law.

Breaking ranks from many of their artistic colleagues, a group of French directors and actors including Catherine Deneuve issued an open letter of protest this week.

"The law comes in response to legitimate concerns which we all share – concerns that we will see our work devalued and degraded," they wrote. "However this law … is merely imposing a punitive system whose constitutionality is dubious and practicality unclear."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/apr/09/france-illegal-downloads-state-surveillance

There is no way of protecting intellectual rights with the wide usage of the ...

the only way is for Tom cruise to take a paycut from his 50 million dollar payouts to something realistic, thus making the movies cheaper at the thater level od store level...

Microsoft charging cheaper than their current AUS$250 for VISTA and all there other products while they are cherging US$25 for VISTA and XP to the multi nationals...

Record companies ripping the the bands...the list is endless...

This is abusing the system while hiding behind intelectual rights bullshit...

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xp is old who uses that crap anymore. espesially with windows 7 coming

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XP is still better than anything on the market today...Vista turned out to be a dissapointment with its huge hunger for resources...

Windows 7 is just another service pack of Vista re packaged....still resource hungry...