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Is Piracy Just a Game?

Is Piracy Just a Game?

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Sometimes learning life lessons can be hard, as independent video game developer Greenhart Games recently found out. Greenhart decided to release a doctored version of its “Game Dev Tycoon” to pirate sites at the same time the original hit the stores. The gist of the game is to have players fulfill their fantasies of becoming game developers themselves, chockfull of all the trials and tribulations of business development.

Turning a Dream Into a Job With IP

Turning a Dream Into a Job With IP

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In no place is this more evident than in Nashville, where anyone from budding songwriter to established superstar has the ability to turn music from a dream into a job. IP rights fuel the creative genius of our homegrown talent and attract businesses from around the country and the world to invest in our people.

Some Positive Steps Seen in Chinese Software Piracy

Some Positive Steps Seen in Chinese Software Piracy

By Jasper MacSlarrow

The protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR) is critically important to creating jobs, promoting innovation, and ensuring that families are purchasing safe products. That is why the GIPC is leading a worldwide effort to champion intellectual property rights, which includes attention to the efforts being made in China to protect IPR.

 

Last week, a Beijing Court upheld the Haidian District Court’s decision that sentenced counterfeiter Shang Yajun to seven years and six months imprisonment for copyright infringement and the sale of counterfeit products.  According to published reports, this is the longest-ever criminal sentence in China for such crimes.