Special 301 Report reveals the extent of the negative financial impact on the US economy by overseas copyright piracy and market access barriers.
The submission made by the International intellectual property alliance to the United States Trade Representative is focused on reforms recommendations that could improve the fight against piracy of US intellectual property at the overseas markets.
These recommendations are:
- Ukraine to be maintained as USTR – designated Priority Foreign Country
- China, India, Russia and Vietnam to be placed in the USTR Priority Watch List
- Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Ecuador, Greece, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Mexico, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan to be placed in The USTR Watch List
- Under “Special Mention” are Hong Kong, Malaysia and The Philippines
- The Additional Countries are: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Georgia, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro
- Italy and Spain are in the “Out of Cycle Review” section
The Submission accentuates also 12 key copyright and foreign countries` market access challenges faced by US industries:
The Need for Deterrent Enforcement Responses to Copyright Piracy; Internet Piracy; Enterprise (Including Government) End‐User Piracy of Software and Other Copyright Materials; Hard‐Disk Loading, Mobile Device Piracy, and Media Boxes; Circumvention of Technological Protection Measures; Illegal Camcording of Theatrical Motion Pictures; Piracy of Books and Journals; Optical Disc Piracy; Pay TV Piracy and Signal Theft; Implementation of IPR Provisions in Trade Agreements; Implementation of the WCT and WPPT; Market Access Barriers.
IIPA sees the modern and effective copyright protection as a contribution to the US economic growth and also as a factor of support for the” creative sectors” in the US trade partners, mentioned in the 2014 Special 301 Report.
