Wednesday, 15. February 2012
Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 15, 2012 at 7:30:00 PM CET
IPRED
The Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) is a long-running proposal by the European Union to increase penalties and ultimately criminalise "commercial" infractions of intellectual property law within the EU.
The directive was originally passed in March 2004 and provided additional confiscatory and subpoena powers to litigants in civil IP cases. Additional legal protection for technical protection measures (TPM) was dropped, as were criminal penalties for IP infringement.
Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (Enforcement Directive or IPRED Directive)
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