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Business Software Alliance Delivers Anti-Piracy Training To Kuwait Ministry Of Commerce & Industry Inspectors
Published Feb 8, 2011
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Business Software Alliance (BSA), the world’s foremost advocate for the software industry, has partnered with the Kuwait Ministry of Commerce and Industry to deliver anti-piracy training to the Ministry’s inspectors.the sessions focused on education, awareness and enforcement strategies to curb the spread of software piracy and reduce the negative social and economic effects of this illegal activity.
The Kuwaiti government is considering various strategies to enhance its anti-piracy activities and policies following recommendations given by the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) in its 2010 Special 301 Report on Copyright Protection and Enforcement . The IIPA report affirms that the Ministry of Commerce and Industry has been especially cooperative and committed to fighting piracy. The Ministry’s collaboration with the Business Software Alliance for this training represents Kuwait’s pursuit of more proactive and collaborative approaches to combating the software piracy threat.
Although Kuwait has managed to reduce its software piracy rate over the past three years, there is still much work to be done to ensure the protection of legitimate software businesses and vendors. We plan to adopt a multi-pronged approach which combines education and enforcement to ensure that the piracy issue is addressed in a comprehensive and sustainable manner.
Our partnership with Business Software Alliance is a major step towards this direction,” said Sheikha Rasha Naif Al Jaber Al Ahmad Al Sabah, Director of IPR at the Kuwait Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
Two major problems being faced by Kuwait’s software sector are the loading of unlicensed software on PCs and the sale of pirated copies in the retail markets. We intend to assist the Ministry’s inspectors as they endeavor to maximize their anti-piracy.
About BSA:
The Business Software Alliance (www.bsa.org) is the world’s foremost advocate for the software industry, working in 80 countries to expand software markets and create conditions for innovation and growth. Governments and industry partners look to BSA for thoughtful approaches to key policy and legal issues, recognizing that software plays a critical role in driving economic and social progress in all nations.
BSA’s member companies invest billions of dollars a year in local economies, good jobs, and next generation solutions that will help people around the world be more productive, connected, and secure.
BSA members include: Adobe, Altium, Apple, Asseco Poland S.A., Attachmate, Autodesk, AVEVA, Bentley Systems, CNC, Corel, Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corporation, DBA Lab S.p.A., Mamut, Microsoft, NedGraphics, Progress Software, O&O Software, Scalable Software, Siemens, Symantec, Tekla and The MathWorks.
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