U.S. urges Brazil to crack down on pirated goods
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Brazil, the world's fourth biggest market for pirated goods, must do more to fight piracy of international products which cost companies billions of dollars annually, the U.S. Attorney General said on Friday.
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A top U.S. commerce official said he told China to expect American textile makers to seek new limits on Chinese imports as soon as next week, as he also urged Beijing to do more to stop piracy and lower trade barriers.
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U.S. retailers and police called on  Congress on Thursday to require online auction sites such as  eBay to post the serial numbers of items for sale to help crack  down on gangs of professional shoplifters.
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Counterfeiting and piracy costs the global economy at least 100 billion dollars (77 billion euros) each year, the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organisation warned.
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Brazil has called for more UN troops to be sent to Haiti to curb a wave of unrest in which more than 40 people have been killed in a fortnight.
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The U.S. hopes to focus certain international trading partners on the piracy problem with a voluntary anticounterfeiting trade agreement.
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Brazil calls for more UN troops to be sent to Haiti to curb a wave of violence in which dozens have died.
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The United States Trade Representative's office on Thursday sent out letters to key American business establishments seeking feedback on China's commitments to crack down on copyright piracy.
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Florida citrus growers and juice processors petitioned the federal government Monday to impose higher costs on Brazilian orange juice imports, claiming that Brazil&#39;s citrus industry has
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(InfoWorld) - The U.S. Department of Justice and President George Bush are committed to fighting intellectual-property theft and cybercrime, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told a small audience in Seattle on Wednesday morning. He cited a number of initiatives the DOJ has launched in the past year and detailed a few high-profile arrests of cybercriminals as examples of the government's focus on the issues. Just last month in Seattle, for example, authorities indicted Robert Soloway, known as the "spam king," for his role in sending millions of spam e-mails and selling useless mass e-mailing products and services. "In bringing cases like this, we recognize that spam is not just an annoyance," Gonzales said. The DOJ has 240 federal prosecutors around the country who are trained to address complex computer crimes, he said. This week, many of them are attending a meeting in Florida with computer industry experts to beef up their training in how to respond to cyber incidents, he said. The DOJ has a similar number of prosecutors who are specially trained to handle intellectual-property theft investigations. Gonzales pointed to another local arrest from last year that was possible because of the work the DOJ is doing to prosecute such criminals. Scott Laney, a Washington man, was sentenced to five years in prison and fined more than $9 million for his role in acquiring Microsoft software at reduced rates and illegally reselling it at near market value. "The stiff sentence in this case shows modern-day pirates that we take these crimes seriously," Gonzales said. His biggest concern is that piracy is an easy way for criminals to raise money that could be used for other illicit activities, including terrorism. "It's more than just a question of protecting IP, it's a question of security," he said. The DOJ is also reaching out to overseas governments in hopes of encouraging them to crack down on intellectual-property crime. Last year, the DOJ provided training to more than 3,000 foreign prosecutors, investigators and judges in more than 100 countries, he said. "IP theft is undeniably an international concern," he said. Gonzales spoke at an event organized by TechNet Northwest, an association of technology companies that focuses on public policy and politics to help promote the high-tech economy. The event was also promoted by the Discovery Institute, a group that promotes creationism. Around 50 people attended. Gonzales didn't touch on a more sensitive local issue: The firing of Western Washington U.S. Attorney John McKay late last year. A small group of Seattlites didn't forget though, gathering outside of the hotel where Gonzales spoke to protest the firing and other issues.
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China has promised to pursue product pirates identified by American authorities in a new effort to stamp out its thriving counterfeit industry, the head of the U.S. customs agency said Friday.
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Brazil and the United States are exploring ways to breathe life into moribund talks designed to forge a free-trade region covering the Americas,  senior U.S. and Brazilian officials said Sunday.
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WASHINGTON  - Washington is likely to help Brazilin its plan to shoot down planes suspected of smuggling drugsafter determining it has enough safeguards to preventaccidental killings, senior U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
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The United States recognized Taiwan and Poland on Tuesday for making better efforts to crack down on pirated and counterfeit goods estimated to cost U.S. companies hundreds of millions of dollar annually, but said more work was needed.
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No, this isn't a repost from 1999 Brazil is taking a hard line against two nearly decade-old computer games that federal officials say incite violence and harm consumer health.â¦
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Russia should shut down a pirate music Web site that is robbing U.S. recording companies of sales if it wants to become a member of the World Trade Organization, the top U.S. trade official said on Wednesday.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - A spree of "pirate" raids on  vacation homes around the chic Brazilian beach resort of Angra  dos Reis has led police to mount air and sea patrols over the  holiday season, a security official said on Thursday.