PROSECUTORS SE ARE LEAN ON THE PROBLEMS OF " INTELLECTUAL PIRACY
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MOSCOW, March 6.  / Corr.  RIA " Novosti " Olga Semenova /. the
prosecutors are lean on the problems of " intellectual piracy " within
the framework of a three days conference on the theme:  " Protection
of the intellectual property.  Legislation and its use in the fight
against piracy in the audio-visual one.  European experiment ".  It is
what let know, Tuesday, the Management of the information and the
public relations of the general Parquet floor of the Federation of
Russia.

The conference in question which A associates the
prosecutor-assistants of the subject-members of the Federation of
Russia and the examining magistrates, being specialisant in the
investigation into crimes of this category had ete organizes by the
Russian general Parquet floor in common with the international
organization " Programme TACIS - intellectual Property " / Paris / and
the Organization anti-piracy of Russia / RAPO /.


The very particular interest of the Russian and international
organizations to the problems of the fight against the criminal
business is undoubtedly dOe has the will of proteger the rights and
the interests legitimes of the citizens face has criminal attacks has
the intellectual property as regards realization of the audio-visual
production, as well as has the firm intention of empecher the negative
impact of " intellectual piracy " on the economy of Russia.

The experts have calculates that the economy parallele, that of the
traffic of counterfeited products, varies from 80 A 85% of the
functioning audio-visual legal, whereas the illegaux benefit depassent
700 million US dollars there That known as, according to certain data,
the annual commercial losses of Russia following the violations of the
royalty approach a billion dollar US.