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Company Pushes Debate On Implementing WTO TRIPS Cross-Retaliation

By Intellectual Property Watch

A website providing unlimited music and movies for a token price is seeking to take advantage of a 2007 World Trade Organisation ruling between the Caribbean nations of Antigua and Barbuda and the United States, which granted Antigua the right to suspend some US intellectual property rights obligations. The action raises questions about implementation of cross-retaliation rulings, in which the complaining country can seek damages in a different sector than that in which the harm was incurred.

Full post as published by Intellectual Property Watch on September 03, 2009 (boomark / email).