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Results for theft of intellectual property (u.k.)
1 results foundAuthor: Alliance Against IP Theft Title: Proving the Connection: links between intellectual property theft and organised crime Summary: Ever since the Alliance officially launched in the Summer of 1999, announcing £6.4 billion lost to the UK economy through counterfeiting and piracy, we have made references to links between intellectual property (IP) theft and organised crime. Although anecdotal, we knew that these links existed because of the evidence which our members’ anti-piracy units were turning up in the course of enforcing the intellectual property rights (IPR) within their industries. However, none of it was being systematically documented. Then, for the first time, the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) listed intellectual property theft in its 2000 National Threat Assessment and accorded it a high impact assessment. The report also stated that “money laundering is integral to practically all criminal activities that generate high volumes of cash proceeds.” The connection was reinforced in the following year’s National Threat Assessment, but there were issues surrounding the sharing of confidential operational information which caused a real lack of coordination of any hard facts. The Alliance believed that in various files dotted about industry’s antipiracy units were useful case histories accumulating amongst the miscellaneous press cuttings covering their operational successes. So we set about unearthing this information to produce solid examples to support our claims of the growing attraction of the low risk activity of counterfeiting and piracy to organised crime groups. This report is our first attempt at publishing our findings. It represents the tip of the iceberg. It is indicative of the global nature of the problem that two similar reports have just been published in France and the USA. Details: London: Alliance Against IP Theft, Undated. 40p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 7, 2012 at http://www.allianceagainstiptheft.co.uk/downloads/reports/Proving-the-Connection.pdf Year: 0 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.allianceagainstiptheft.co.uk/downloads/reports/Proving-the-Connection.pdf Shelf Number: 125331 Keywords: Money LaunderingOrganized Crime (U.K.)Piracy, Intellectual PropertyTheft of Intellectual Property (U.K.) |