Business executives from medicine industry to software industry have joined
forces and agreed to launch a global organization to protect IPRs in a meeting
held in London on October 4, 2005.
Among the business leaders are Steve
Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, Eric Nicoli, chairman of EMI and Bob Wright, CEO of
NBC Universal. They insisted that many countries are not making reasonable
efforts to come up with an adequate legal framework or enforce it in the fight
against counterfeiting and piracy.
“ We need an adequate legal framework
and enforcement capacity,” says Vivendi Universal chairman Jean-Rene Fourtou. He
also added “We are very far from that even in the US, and Europe is quite
worse.”
London AP= Yonhap
(Source : Jeil Economic Daily, page
11, Date: October 6, 2005)
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Photo : Chairman, Park, Yong-Sung boasting about Korea’s current status
in intellectual property rights protection at the ICC conference (International
Chamber of Commerce)
To hold discussions to stop counterfeit and piracy
Park, Yong-Sung, the ICC chairman, to meet with the world’s business
executives
Park, Yong-Sung, the ICC or the International Chamber of
Commerce chairman has attended the BASCAP(Business Action to Stop Counterfeit
and Piracy) CEO Global Leadership Group Meeting held in London on October 4 in
local time and shared opinions on IPRs protection with the world’s business
leaders.
The BASCAP is a joint group effort which was launched to protect
IPRs by the global business leaders at the convention meeting of the ICC last
June.
Its objective is to make coordinated efforts with each government
and international organization
In this meeting, the following issues
have been adopted as the strategic objectives of the BASCAP to protect IPRs.
- To use power of businesses and business organizations to prevent
counterfeiting and piracy
- To wage PR campaigns to mass media and the
public
- To encourage each government to participate in IPRs protection
activities
Mr. Park said in the meeting that he would make his desperate
efforts to protect IPRs of businesses across the world for his term. “The ICC
would broaden its efforts through consistent cooperation with each government
and be at the center of protection activities,” he added.
Among other
business leaders than Mr. Park in the meeting are Steve Ballmer, CEO of
Microsoft, Eric Nicoli, EMI chairman, Peter Brabeck-letmathe, Nestle chairman ,
Bob Wright, NBC chairman and other CEOs.
(Source : Jeil Economic
Daily, page 16, Date : October 6, 2005)
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