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for helpful data concerning TV programme format rights WEDNESDAY SHORTIESFighting IP criminal offence ... it's NIPER!

Here's a U.K. Patent Office press issue announcing the publication last calendar week of the National Intellectual Property Enforcement Report for 2005 (NIPER for short). says it makes depressing reading for IP owners together with legitimate businesses: he feels the psyche argue that word together with enforcement figures bring improved is that there's directly then much infringement that yous tin hardly fille it. Merpel agrees: this is a have out which, without amount back upwardly from government, the courts together with - most importantly - the public, nosotros can't win. But nosotros can't quit either.

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