[…] Ethiopia has mobilized its media, schools, judicial and law enforcement agencies, as well as commercial, cultural, artistic and scientific groups to press home the need for intellectual property (IP) protection to develop the country’s economy. When the Ethiopian government grasped the importance of intellectual property rights as a development tool, it realized that a societywide engagement was necessary, says Getachew Mengistie, the director-general of the Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office.

[…] “The United States will continue to monitor to ensure that Russia moves to implement a variety of legal and law enforcement improvements to which it committed as part of a bilateral agreement with the United States on Russia’s accession to the WTO,” USTR said in releasing its annual Special 301 report to Congress. “Implementation of these commitments remains essential to completing the final multilateral negotiations on the overall accession package.”

[…] The speaker is David Chavern, the executive vice president and chief operating officer of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He spoke to reporters about the chamber's views on intellectual property protection before heading to Mumbai, India, to participate in the chamber's second annual Global Forum on Innovation, Creativity, and Intellectual Property, which took place February 26-27. The recording was made by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington February 19.

[…] David Chavern, the chamber's vice president; Murray Hiebert, of the chamber's Southeast Asia division; David Hirschman, president of the chamber's Global Intellectual Property Center; and Caroline Joiner, the center's executive director, spoke recently on the common interest of producers and users to protect IP. The key point, in the chamber's view, is that without IP protection, there is no incentive for innovation and, without innovation, there is no economic growth.

[…] La protezione della proprietà intellettuale ha rappresentato uno dei più importanti strumenti per lo sviluppo economico americano, e trova radici nella nostra costituzione. Personaggi che hanno avuto un ruolo fondamentale nella storia degli Stati Uniti, quali Jefferson e Franklin, uomini di governo ma anche di scienza, avevano capito sin da allora quanto fosse importante tutelare le opere dell’ingegno. E quanto fosse importante stimolare la creatività del proprio popolo.

[…] Eric Schwartz, who represents a U.S. industry group called the International Intellectual Property Alliance, said that enforcement is the most difficult task. He said the focus should not be on “schoolteachers” who might have some software that was illegally copied. “Take action at street kiosks and stores selling it,” he advised, “and at organized crime syndicates and large-scale businesses producing it.”