The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) the designation of Ukraine as a Priority Foreign Country (PFC) as a result of severe legal and copyright enforcement problems.
The IIPA IIPA recommends that United States Trade Representative
designate Ukraine as a Priority Foreign Country and immediately suspend
Ukraine’s eligibility to continue receiving Generalized System of
Preferences (GSP) benefits.
The report says that Problems in Ukraine include rampant online and
hard goods piracy, governmental decisions to act against the legitimate
collecting society instead of against rogue societies, and the pervasive
use of unlicensed software by businesses and government ministries. The
piracy rates and level of copyright protection in Ukraine have worsened
over the past two years. Both free and pay-for-download piracy of music
and film are widespread in Ukraine.
Ukraine has now been placed on the IIPA Priority Watch List.
GSP denotes a country that receives trade benefits under the Generalized System of Preferences program.
The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) is a private
sector coalition, formed in 1984, of trade associations representing
U.S. copyright-based industries in bilateral and multilateral efforts
working to improve international protection and enforcement of
copyrighted materials and open up foreign markets closed by piracy and
other market access barriers.
