Global Communications

February 15, 2002 – The Brazilian government has made numerous commitments to U.S. government officials over the years – most recently in March 2001 – to address the core problems of extremely high piracy rates and inadequate enforcement. And yet... Read More

February 16, 2001 – The IIPA recommends that Brazil be elevated to the Special 301 Priority Watch List this year. We also strongly support the U.S. government’s initiation of a review of Brazil’s intellectual property rights practices under the Generalized... Read More

"The Internet has had a major impact on society and business during the last decade of the 20th century. Yet ... there is a lack of comparable data on its spread across the world."... Read More

February 18, 2000 – Given the growing levels of optical media piracy in Brazil, the market for legitimate copyright products is being decimated. IIPA believes Brazil should be elevated to the Priority Watch List.... Read More

"For over a year, the .CL top-level domain has been operating under a set of rules that allows for the resolution of conflicts for domain names by an arbitration system."... Read More

"Several Latin American and Caribbean countries have made progress in designing and implementing school network projects at a national level. These projects have been undertaken as part of an educational system modernization process."... Read More

"Haiti does not appear to be the most fertile ground for Internet growth. It is a poor nation with low literacy rates, difficult terrain, and few working telephone lines outside the capital city."... Read More

"As Internet technologies and applications evolve, along with emerging e-commerce, the legal issues surrounding the use of intellectual property on the Internet have given rise to complex international disputes."... Read More

"The Central American countries (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, and Belize) have recently decided to go into a process of political, economic, social, cultural, and ecological integration through a Central American Integration System."... Read More

"A trademark ... is either a word, phrase, symbol or design, or combination of words, phrases, symbols or designs, which identifies and distinguishes the source of the goods or services of one party from those of others."... Read More