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This Week on the Copyright Alliance Blog - Week of April 19, 2010

Friday, April 23, 2010

April 20th – Senators Demand Answers on Chinese IP Infringement
Patrick Ross, Executive Director, The Copyright Alliance

Kudos to Senate Finance Committee leaders for calling on a key governmental agency to produce two detailed reports on Chinese infringement of copyright and other IP rights. Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Charles Grassley (R-IA) wrote (http://finance.senate.gov/newsroom/chairman/release/?id=d48e7053-ddc1-476b-9599-14dd68710836) Shara Aranoff, Chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission, on Monday, calling for the reports.

Read Complete Commentary: http://blog.copyrightalliance.org/2010/04/senators-demand-answers-on-chinese-ip-infringement/

April 21st – USTR Continues Transparency on ACTA
Patrick Ross, Executive Director, The Copyright Alliance

As promised, the U.S. Trade Representative’s office released today the draft text of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which it is negotiating with numerous trading partners, all of which are committed under international treaties and their own legal systems to enforcement of IP rights.

Read Complete Commentary: http://blog.copyrightalliance.org/2010/04/ustr-continues-transparency-on-acta/

In Syn©: updates on innovation in the copyright community
April 22nd – New Friendship between Pandora and Facebook
(http://blog.copyrightalliance.org/2010/04/insyn%C2%A9-new-friendship-between-pandora-and-facebook/)

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