BSA seeks stiffer penalties for IPR violators.Byline: Dubai Business Software Alliance (BSA 1. BSA - Business Software Alliance. 2. BSA - Bidouilleurs Sans Argent. ) has recommended stiffer penalties for violators of intellectual property rights (IPR IPR Intellectual Property Rights IPR Inprocess/Inprogress Review IPR Industrial Property Rights IPR Institute for Policy Research (Northwestern University and University of Cincinnati) IPR Institute of Public Relations ) and intensified enforcement campaign to tackle software piracy The illegal copying of software for distribution within the organization, or to friends, clubs and other groups, or for duplication and resale. The software industry loses billions of dollars each year to piracy, and although it may seem innocent enough to install an application on a in the UAE. BSA is a leading global organisation that is the voice of the global commercial software industry and its hardware partners before governments and in the international marketplace. The BSA in partnership with the Institute of Training and Judicial Studies, UAE, recently held a roundtable meeting as part of joint efforts to support the ministries and authorities in their efforts related to combating all forms of piracy piracy, robbery committed or attempted on the high seas. It is distinguished from privateering in that the pirate holds no commission from and receives the protection of no nation but usually attacks vessels of all nations. . The roundtable was part of the BSA's regional initiatives to strengthen collaboration between BSA and relevant ministries and authorities across the GCC GCC: see Gulf Cooperation Council. (compiler, programming) GCC - The GNU Compiler Collection, which currently contains front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj, etc). in the battle against software piracy. Representatives from the BSA and the Institute of Training and Judicial Studies, with several government representatives and members of judicial authority, discussed the applicable laws and issues as well as methods aimed at further improving UAE's major anti-piracy initiatives, which have been credited largely for limiting the country's economic losses to piracy. Dr Mohammed Kamali, general director, Institute of Training and Judicial Studies, said, 'With access to rapidly evolving technology, software pirates around the world are focused on making a bigger impact by targeting naive customers.' 'This makes it imperative for software companies and the governments to increase their joint efforts to tackle piracy and take stringent measures to curb this menace. The UAE's Copyright law is an advanced legislative instrument that provides the necessary legal basis for combating all forms of piracy,' he added. Jawad Al Redha, BSA co-chairman in the Gulf region, said: 'The UAE roundtable served as an ideal platform for us to discuss new ways to combat software piracy in the country and to examine the challenges we jointly need to address.' 'As far as fighting software piracy and protecting intellectual property rights are concerned, the UAE has been setting an excellent example for other countries in the region to follow, and the BSA is pleased to provide all the necessary support to complement the country's efforts in this regard,' he added.- TradeArabia News Service Copyright 2008 www.tradearabia.com Copyright 2009 Al Hilal Publishing & Marketing Group Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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