A Russian site offering dirt-cheap music downloads in all imagina...
A Russian site offering dirt-cheap music downloads in all imaginable formats tops a U.S. Trade Representative Special 301 list of “notorious markets,” Deputy USTR Karan Bhatia told the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences at a Hill event…
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this week. Allofmp3.com, which claims to pay royalties to Russian collection societies but offers music not licensed for online sale, is a big stumbling block to Russia’s joining the WTO, Bhatia said. The British Phonographic Industry recently got court permission to sue the website in the U.K. (WID July 5 p7). Setting “secure e- commerce” rules is a new, “critically important endeavor” for the USTR, Bhatia said. Each negotiated free trade pact contains a “state of the art chapter on e-commerce,” he said. The USTR has increased staff and financing for IP efforts, including a new IP Office and chief IP enforcement negotiator, Bhatia said. For the first time, the 2006 USTR report will analyze China’s IP enforcement system down to the province level, he added.