Laws against IP piracy may stop some purveyors of porn

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Much of the pornography appearing on the Internet uses properties obtained in infringement from rights holders. The Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights of the Information Infrastructure Task Force in its analysis of the Internet's effect on intellectual property laws recommended revision of the Copyright Act of 1976 providing for a right of distribution by transmission and including distribution by transmission in the definition of publication. International agreements are also necessary to protect copyright owners' rights against pornographers and to foster the information highway's growth.

Software piracy

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Counterfeiting reaches new levels; organized crime has capitalized on the lack of strong criminal laws both here and abroad

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A spectacular increase worldwide in counterfeiting and in the harm it wreaks demand attention from legislators and law-enforcement agencies in the US and abroad. Businesses lose roughly $200 billion to counterfeit goods each year, and organized crime and terrorists have largely taken over that criminal enterprise. Pharmaceuticals are especially popular, and 5% of all such drugs are now counterfeit, causing hundreds of deaths annually. The high profits and low penalties for counterfeiting goods makes it attractive to criminals.

International aspects, Organized crime, Product counterfeiting, international

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Private cyber-censors' blacklists are unveiled; those caught in dragnet of electronic blockers have no legal recourse, experts say

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Internet entrepreneurs marketing blocking software to parents and political and social organizations that have recently found themselves to be blacklisted by peddlers of cyberspace pornography are engaged in a fight over censorship. While most blockers keep their blacklists private, some which have been leaked recently show these lists to contain Web sites which are really not pornographic. It is difficult to know what legal theory to use to fight unwarranted inclusion on such a blacklist.

Analysis, Usage, Internet, Censorship

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