The US removed Ukraine from the priority Supervisory list pirates

Trade predstavitelstvo USA transferred to Ukraine from the list of countries against which the Washington introduces penalties for violation of intellectual property rights, in the list of countries against which an investigation is under way in this area.
about it informs " news Agency. Director of Department of information policy of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Yevhen perebyinis said that this decision was a kind of compromise from the USA, and also by the desire to assure support to the new government of Ukraine to improve the protection of intellectual property in the country, " Ukrainskaya Pravda "writes. In March it was announced that North America in connection with the Ukrainian crisis will not be applied against Ukraine trade penalties for intellectual piracy. In the spring of 2013, the US announced the beginning of a special investigation against Ukraine on violations of intellectual property rights (PRIS) in this country. In annual overview report on such information Ukraine was filed complaints on " the government's use of pirated programs for computers, piracy on the Internet, as well as non-transparent and unfair " to collect payments at the expense of the copyright. may 1, U.S. authorities unveiled a " priority Supervisory list " on intellectual property, putting Ukraine in the first place. In the report of trade envoy said that Kiev was not able to effectively fight piracy on the Internet, in addition, in the country, the acute problem of use of pirated software. The USA has told, that if Kiev does not take proper measures for protection of intellectual property, Ukraine may lose a number of trade benefits. Kiev did not agree with the first place in the list of violators of copyright. In addition, this priority Supervisory list " of the United States on intellectual property was Russia, Algeria, Argentina, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Thailand and Venezuela. Note that before Ukraine was not in the " priority ", as in the usual " Supervisory review "list.


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