Friday, January 25, 2013

Antigua & Barbuda could hit U.S. with copyright-free downloads in trade sanctions

(Reuters)- Antigua & Barbuda will tell the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Monday that it intends to use trade sanctions against the United States, which it could enforce by allowing movie downloads without protecting U.S. copyright.

Antigua & Barbuda has the right to do so because it won a WTO legal case, first launched in 2003, against a U.S. ban on online gambling. The United States then said it would no longer apply WTO rules to gambling but failed to offer Antigua & Barbuda

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