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"Mrs Fourtou’s report is valuable because it provides an important gloss on the Commission’s green paper ‘Combating counterfeiting and piracy in the single market’. This document clearly sets out the importance of intellectual property in the contemporary world and the damage that theft of that property can do.
While many people quite rightly consider that burglary is wrong, there is not somehow the same feeling about, for example, the illegal taking and using of intellectual property, for example, pirated CDs or using Napster to get other people’s music off the Internet. But, of course, there is no fundamental difference between the two. In some ways the most interesting challenge posed by these relatively new forms of crime are the means of countering them.
Clearly, in any pan-national single market, measures cannot be confined to a single Member State’s jurisdiction but it does not automatically follow that the correct answer is European-wide harmonisation of penalties, criminal law and procedures. There is undoubtedly an overriding requirement for coordination and a single strategy to deal with the counterfeiters and pirates, but the principles of mutual recognition have not, in my view, been given the prominence I would like to have seen in the conclusions to the report. This tends to emphasise the need to harmonise more than is appropriate or necessary in the circumstances. However, having said that, it is important for the European Union’s judicial area to have a coherent and comprehensive framework for dealing with the problems of counterfeiting and piracy which is widely carried out both within and without the Union by increasingly determined and technologically sophisticated criminals.
We are often glibly told, rightly in fact I believe, that we are moving into a knowledge-based society. We therefore cannot allow that knowledge to be stolen from those to whom it belongs as doing that will undermine the economic base of the society. If that happens, we allow it to happen at our peril."@en1
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