PARIS (AP) — L’Oreal and eBay have agreed to settle a dispute in France over counterfeit cosmetics through mediation instead of going to court.
A top Paris court earlier this month gave both companies until this Monday to consider a proposal of mediation. At a hearing Monday, the companies accepted, L’Oreal said Tuesday.
The judge set another [...]
Entries from May 29th, 2009
News: L’Oreal and eBay agree to mediation in French legal dispute over counterfeit cosmetics
May 29th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: Counterfeit Goods · Ebay · L'Oreal
News: Electronic Arts’ ‘Sims 3’ hit by piracy ahead of sale
May 29th, 2009 No Comments
PIRACY, long a scourge of the music and movie industries, is taking aim at one of the biggest videogame releases of the year.
Electronic Arts Inc.’s The Sims 3, scheduled to go on sale on June 2, was downloaded at least 180,000 times from May 18 to May 21, according to BigChampagne Llc., a company that [...]
News: Sierra Leone closes clinics accused of giving fake drugs
May 29th, 2009 No Comments
FREETOWN (AFP) — Sierra Leone has shut down a group of clinics run by Egyptian doctors for allegedly administering fake drugs as part of crackdown on illegal practices in the health sector, officials said Wednesday.
“We investigated after receiving a number of complaints from patients being given fake drugs and sub-standard injections for the treatment of [...]
News: Software piracy cost Canada $1.4B in 2008
May 29th, 2009 No Comments
Software piracy cost the Canadian economy $1.4 billion in 2008, prompting an industry group to call Tuesday for tougher copyright laws to thwart levels of theft far above those of other advanced economies.
Although the volume of pirated software in Canada fell slightly, to 32 from 33%, and while Canada remains within the top 25 countries [...]
Tags: Canada · software piracy
News: France adopts world’s strictest Web piracy laws
May 28th, 2009 No Comments
The French Senate has approved the world’s strictest anti-piracy laws. The bill calls for a new police agency to monitor illegal downloading of copyright material, warning violators twice before banning them from the internet for one year. While banned, violators would still pay their internet provider.
The vote is a victory for President Nicolas Sarkozy, [...]
Tags: France · Illegal Downloading · Legislation · Piracy
News: Video copiers worth P300 million seized
May 28th, 2009 No Comments
Some P300 million worth of video replicating machines capable of turning out millions of pirated discs a day have been seized at the Manila International Container Port.
Customs Commissioner Napoleon Morales and Optical Media Board Chairman Edu Manzano yesterday presented to reporters seven copiers among other goods inside six shipping containers that arrived on May 15.
Customs [...]
Tags: Hong Kong · Philippines · Piracy
News: Awareness Drive Launched in Fight Against Counterfeiting and Piracy
May 28th, 2009 No Comments
LONDON – The Minister of State for Intellectual Property, David Lammy, emphasized on May 26, 2009 the government’s commitment to fighting counterfeiting and piracy with the launch of guidance designed to highlight the Proceeds of Crime Act, a press release by the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) stated.
Both consumers and traders will be targeted with [...]
Tags: Counterfeiting · London · Piracy · UK-IPO
News: Staff eager to blow the whistle on pirate software
May 28th, 2009 No Comments
A campaign by the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) to encourage staff to blow the whistle on employers who ask them to install unlicensed software has attracted 500 enquiries in its first month, the organisation said today.
The organisation, which is encouraging employees to report employers online, claimed that staff who blow the whistle on illegal [...]
Tags: FAST · Pirated Software · Whistleblowing
News: Crackdown on sale of illegal goods on the Internet
May 28th, 2009 No Comments
A CRACKDOWN on people selling illegal items on the Internet led to North Lincolnshire Council searching five homes last month.
Trading standards have seized computers, DVD copiers, counterfeit DVDs, games, clothing, footwear and even bank details and documents.
Four people are suspected of either producing, copying or selling counterfeit items.
If found guilty, the offenders face an unlimited [...]
Tags: Counterfeiting · UK
News: Illegal downloads soar as hard times bite
May 28th, 2009 No Comments
Hundreds of thousands more Australians have turned to illegal download sites in the past year to save money on movies, music, software and TV shows during the economic downturn, new figures show.
Total visits by Australians to BitTorrent websites including Mininova, The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, TorrentReactor and Torrentz grew from 785,000 in April last year to [...]
