Monday, January 28, 2013

Antigua & Barbuda gets OK from WTO to become copyright haven

Americans call it piracy. Antiguans call it justice.

The islands of Antigua & Barbuda are threatening to strip intellectual property protections from American goods as part of a long-running trade dispute over the U.S. embargo on the Caribbean nation's online gambling industry.

U.S. officials say the proposed copyright haven - whose broad outlines were approved Monday at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva - amounts to "government-authorized piracy." But Antiguans, who've won

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