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    Organized Crime Department author of anti-piracy bill

    12:58 - 14.04.12


    The Legal and Organized Crime Departments of the Armenian Police have
    proposed amendments to the Criminal and Administrative Codes to
    strengthen the protection of copyright and adjacent rights, and reduce
    piracy.

    The initiative is expected to enhance the effectiveness of the
    Armenia-EU negotiations over the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade
    Area Agreement.

    Both bills, available on the official website of the Police, were
    elaborated under a May 2009 presidential decree in an attempt to
    ensure the implementation of the measures under the European
    Neighborhood Policy.

    The Police calls for reviewing Articles 158 (Breach of copyright and
    adjacent rights) and 197 ( Illegal use of trade mar) of the Criminal
    Code to impose a fine in the amount of 200 and 400 of the minimal
    salary or imprisonment for up to one month, for the appropriation of
    authorship.

    A stricter punishment is proposed in case there is documented evidence
    that such appropriation assumed larger scales (fine in the amount of
    500-1000 minimal salary and imprisonment for up to two months).

    In case the violations were committed in circumvention of technical
    protection means and based on a prior agreement by a group of
    individuals, the perpatrators will face up to two years in prison.

    Under the proposed amendments, fictitious advertising (Article 197)
    will be punished for up to one year in prison. Agravating
    circumstances will extend that term to maximum two years.


    Tert.am

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