EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT COMMITTEE BACKS CRIMINALISING IP OFFENCES
March 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Parliament's legal affairs committee has backed the first attempt to harmonise European Union (EU) criminal laws, a directive that insists the 27 member states criminalise any deliberate infringement of intellectual property rights. MEPs went further, agreeing that such national criminal offences should also be punished by tough and dissuasive penalties.Regarding serious crimes committed by organised crime, such as industrial scale piracy, the directive as agreed by MEPs says maximum penalties must be at least Euro 300,000 in fines ...
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