The Brazilian court has has ordered two Brazilian CD manufacturers to pay record companies over 1 million USD in Latin America's largest ever music piracy case. The authorities had investigated the case for almost three years.
A company called Novodisc Brasil Industria Ltda. manufactured pirate stampers used to replicate tens of thousands of pirate CDs featuring music by major international artists.
The judgment sends a tough message to other copyright infringers in Brazil and around the region, according to the anti-piracy organisation Associaé§é£o Protetora dos Direitos Intelectuais Fonográficos. APDIF brought the damages claim on behalf of the recording industry in Brazil, supported by IFPI on behalf of the industry worldwide. |
'This case is a strong warning to anyone involved in CD piracy in Latin America. CD plants need to understand that if they produce pirate orders for third parties, they will pay a heavy price. It is their responsibility to check what they are manufacturing. IFPI is stepping up its enforcement activity in the region and will pursue anyone involved in piracy with the full force of the law," says Geoff Taylor, IFPI's deputy general counsel.
The Brazilian music market, worth $322 million in 2001, has dropped from the sixth to the twelfth largest music market in the world in the last five years.
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Source: ITP.net
