Intellectual Property Abuse: Contain the Risks

Michael Backman and Charlotte Butler

Chapter Strategy 14 in BIG in Asia, 2003, pp 172-185 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Hundreds of copies of British popstar Robbie Williams’ latest album were selling in Malaysia less than a week after its 2001 release in London. The only problem was that it hadn’t yet been released in Asia. Malaysia’s copyright pirates had been at it again. Well resourced and highly technically proficient, they are among the best in the world when it comes to illegally replicating CDs, VCDs and DVDs, whether for films, music or software. Stalls in Kuala Lumpur’s Chinatown night market display copies of the week’s US Billboard Top Ten, and the films — all illegal copies on VCD priced at only US$1.50 each — are available for purchase.

Keywords: Intellectual Property; World Trade Organization; Software Piracy; Intellectual Property Protection; British American Tobacco (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1057/9781403914484_14

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