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IIPA Wants Italy on Piracy Watchlist for Having Privacy Laws

By Drew Wilson We’ve been covering the different countries the IIPA (International Intellectual Property Alliance) wants on their piracy watchlist. So far, the submissions were either demanding everything and the kitchen sink, had a host of problems in their logic or both. The submission about Italy is no exception to this. We explore why. The


IIPA Wants Mexico on Watchlist Even After it Signed ACTA

By Drew Wilson We’ve been covering the various countries that the IIPA (International Intellectual Property Association) wants to see on the Special 301 report. A surprising request is that Mexico be included on that list. It’s not what was included in the submission that is the most surprising, but what isn’t. Last year, to the


IIPA Wants Egypt on Piracy Watchlist for Not Being Stable Enough

By Drew Wilson There are a number of countries the International Intellectual Property Alliance wants on the US Special 301 priority watchlist. The watchlist is put together by American corporations and published on a government website after. We’ve been covering the reasons why other countries are being requested to put on the watchlist and, today,



IIPA Demands Canada Be Put on 301 Priority Watch List

The IIPA (International Intellectual Property Alliance) is demanding that Canada be put on the Special 301 priority watchlist. Of course, as with how Canada ended up on the priority watchlist last year, the reasons given fall short of being credible enough to warrant being compared to places like China.


IIPA Blames Canada for Movie Piracy (Again)

Many observers who take particular interest in Canadian issues surrounding copyright might find this to be a broken record, but a copyright lobby group is, once again, demanding that Canada be placed on a priority watch list in a special 301 report (or, as some might consider, a priority “wish list”)