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: Lenz BlogEuropean Counterfeiting and Piracy Observatory
By Karl-Friedrich Lenz
The European Union has launched this on April 2. The Observatory will consist of one delegate for each Member State alongside “key private sector representatives”. It will not operate itself in enforcing intellectual property rights, but rather will serve as a forum for discussions.
Main tasks will be obtaining exact figures about the size of the problem, coordinating enforcement cooperation, exploring and spreading successful private sector strategies, and raising public awareness.
Full post as published by Lenz Blog on April 13, 2009 (boomark / email).
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