Tacloban City (April 11) — The Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary Ronaldo Puno reiterates the call on all Local government Units to enact ordinances for the protection of intellectual property rights.
In his Memorandum dated March 11, 2008, Secretary Puno reminded the local government units that the Department issued on December 08, 2003, Memorandum […]

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VietNamNet Bridge – The Recording Industry Association of Vietnam (RIAV) has made public the royalty for online music, which is said to be too high and unfeasible. Yet Pham Long Minh, RIAV’s Office Chairman, confirmed that the most important thing is copyright respect.
RIAV will tighten protection of music copyrights in general and music […]

April 09, 2008 23:25 PM
PUTRAJAYA, 9 April (Bernama) — Malaysia has achieved encouraging progress in efforts to provide protection for intellectual property (IP), said Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Shahrir Abdul Samad.
He said that looking at the developments from 2003 until today, the progress had been satisfactory.
The number of patent registrations had increased […]

By Manik Mehta   April 08, 2008 15:25 PM
NEW YORK, April 8 (Bernama) — China and a number of Asian countries are not the only culprits when it comes to violations of intellectual property rights (IPR).
India, which touts itself as a safe investment destination that offers “complete protection” from IPR piracy, has come for severe criticism […]

Melvin G. Calimag
An annual survey commissioned by the world’s largest IT companies showed that the use of illegal computer software in the Philippines went down by only two percentage points, triggering a call for the country to ratify an international treaty for the protection of intellectual property.
The piracy study, conducted by research firm IDC for […]