Fwd: [IP] A new take on piracy
Patentverletzungen und Urheberrechtsverstöße - die Russen klagen
an!
Kristian
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Subject: [IP] A new take on piracy
Date: Monday 26 July 2004 16:31
From: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
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From: Richard Forno <rforno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: July 26, 2004 5:55:47 AM PDT
To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: A new take on piracy
From today's New York Times:
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Bootlegged copies of new American movies - "King Arthur,''
"Troy'' and "Spider-Man 2'' - sell for $3. Photoshop CS, a $600
program in Western stores, fetches $2.75.
Markets like this, found throughout Russia, have been a
longstanding subject
of diplomatic complaint. Washington contends Russian
intellectual-property
pirates cost the United States more than $1 billion a year.
Now Russia is striking back. A Russian industry and product
designer are asserting that the United States has been abetting
intellectual-property pirates to suit its own needs, by
directing copies of Russian merchandise
around the world.
The complaint is not about software or music. It makes no
mention of movies
or video games. It is about the Kalashnikov assault rifle, the
most prolific
firearm ever made.
"We see a great number of products which are named after
Kalashnikov, my name,'' said Mikhail T. Kalashnikov, the
weapon's original designer. "They
are buying Kalashnikovs from other countries,'' he added.
Since the collapses of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam
Hussein's army
in Iraq, the United States has been purchasing or arranging the
transfer of
thousands of knockoffs of Kalashnikovs commonly referred to as
AK-47's, to
outfit new military and security forces in Kabul and Baghdad.
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These [pirated] rifles have not been made in Russia, where the
arms industry
holds patents for the weapon in several nations. Instead they
have originated in weapons plants controlled by Eastern
European states, each of
which was a partner of Moscow's in Soviet days.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/26/international/europe/26russ.ht
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