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EU heeds labels' complaints on piracy law
By Matthew Broersma
Special to CNET News.com
May 16, 2003, 12:43 PM PT
A new European Union proposal for harmonizing intellectual property law enforcement across member states has come under criticism from the first parliamentary committee to review it.
The committee has suggested that the proposal may need to be modified to better reflect the interests of the music and film industries.
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This approach hit a flat note with the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), however, which in January issued a "dismayed" statement calling for the proposed measures to be beefed up. "The (European) Commission's proposal is inadequate in view of the magnitude of the piracy problem and fails to introduce urgently needed measures to hold back the epidemic of counterfeiting," the record industry trade group stated.
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