Turkey expands fight against copyright piracy
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An action plan aims recently announced the beginning of the end for illegal software in Turkey. The plan, entitled To Start button, the objective of the education sector and justice in an attempt to reduce the trade in pirated software, which is 64 percent of the Turkish part of $ 1 billion of the software industry. Education, culture and the ministries of justice, the development of new rules on software piracy as part of this effort, including the assumption of a number of non-governmental organizations . As part of its commitment to eradicate software piracy in Turkey, the Turkish government has recently begun sending judges and prosecutors from the United States for specific training in order for justice to a large number of software pirated in litigation over the past few years. Four prosecutors, upon arrival in the United States last month, verified cases of intellectual property and learned directly by copyright experts. The workload is already causing nightmares for the manufacturers of pirated software. Some believe, software pirates are encouraged by the fact that the case of Turkey as a general rule a prescription. The new “action plan” for the three departments aims to put an end to this practice. Similarly, the curriculum in place, with courses on “copyright” for students. The goal is to make students and young people in general, aware of the concept of intellectual property rights, including copyright. Copyright adequate and comprehensive, but also cases in the last five years in Turkey: Software piracy is a serious problem in Turkey. Nearly 64 percent of the whole sector of the software is illegal. According to a report published in January this year by the International Data Corporation (IDC), Turkey is a country in which the production of software raubkopierter is widespread. The report notes that even a reduction of 10 percent can be achieved in a number of measures against the illegal exploitation of the software market, which is characterized by criminal organizations, and this could major contributions to the economy of Turkey. Such a reduction of pirated software in the market could lead to what the gross domestic product (GDP) to increase by $ 625 million to the increase in tax revenue of $ 80 million the United States, and employment increased by nearly 36000 people between 2009 and 2011, IDC’s report said. The importance of intellectual property rights and copyright in the software industry has been fully developed at the ministerial level during the last few years. Between 2002 and 2003, the Ministry of Justice a total of eight judges, specialized courts, the United States for training in 10 months of a program on copyright. The ministry now sends prosecutors to participate in the program. The Business Software Alliance (BSA), composed of Microsoft, Apple and Adobe, a pioneer in the world of brands software industry is working with government departments and to the fight against software piracy. Elçim Barkay, Turkey, coordinator of the BSA and Microsoft’s copyrights Manager Turkey, said they were in close contact with the ministries involved in the preparation of the action plan. “We must rapidly in the legal provisions in the context of pirated software, because if the existing laws in this regard are very reasonable and net, the more often the case before a limitation period, and thereafter at judgments, sometimes five years after the fall ago justice, “said Barkay. “In such cases, a statute, a trial must be regarded as prescribed. On this point, equally important is the training of judges and lawyers, which, in general, insufficient information about substance and intellectual property and copyright. The Department of Justice has a large expense about that. What we are trying to do is money flowing block of pirated software products. “Training does is not just about four prosecutors, “said Barkay. One of Turkey, most of the intellectual property rights, eminent experts, the lawyer, Dr. Cahit Suluk, on the other side, so that the adoption of laws on intellectual property during the year 1995 was a “first” to Turkey. Suluk stressed that these laws were adopted in conformity with the TRIPS Agreement, with the customs union and the World Trade Organization, as well as more advanced that are already exciting in many Western countries. “Turkish legislation in the area of intellectual property and copyright are very reasonable and complete, but we have problems in practice. A case can even during the past five years. And, in most cases, are dismissed as a result of cases, statutes, restrictions, “he said. |