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July 21, 2010

Russian Couple Arrested in EUR 1 Billion Film Piracy Case

The Russian authorities have recently arrested and filed criminal charges against a Russian couple Ivan and Irina Podorozhnikovymi, who registered and hosted a file-sharing website called Interfilm, where they uploaded pirated movies allegedly causing almost EUR 1 billion (USD 1.25 billion) in damages.

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July 21, 2010

American Photography Student to Sue Polish Clothing Label for Copyright Infringement

A 19-year old American photography student Rockie Nolan is planning to sue the Polish clothing brand Reserved for copyright infringement, after Reserved reproduced her photograph on their T-shirt collection without her authorization.

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July 21, 2010

Moldova Adopts New Law on Copyright and Neighboring Rights

On July 2, 2010, the Moldovan parliament adopted the new Law on Copyright and Neighboring Rights, which will enter into force three months after its publication in the Official Gazette, which is expected soon.

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LATEST ARTICLE

June 16, 2010

Tightening up in the Balkans

By Anamarija Stancic Petrovic, director of PETOSEVIC Croatia, and Mihajlo Zatezalo, director of PETOSEVIC Serbia. Published in World Intellectual Property Review Annual 2010, 2010. Legislation in the Western Balkan countries (Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Serbia and Kosovo) is already... Read more »

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Nathan Project

In 2007 and 2008, PETOŠEVIĆ served as a local subcontractor to Nathan Associates, a consulting organization from Arlington, VA, to help implement a project of operational and organizational technical assistance to the Serbian Intellectual Property Office. The project was financed by the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA).

The main goal of the project was to help the Serbian IPO to restructure and develop new operational protocols for processing patents and trademarks in order to become an efficient and financially self-sustaining agency.

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The programme's objective is to, among other things, support intellectual property rights protection in the countries of the Western Balkans - Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia & Montenegro and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

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