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Summary of Conclusions
• Encourage wider adoption of voluntary industry initiatives both in the U.S. and around the
world, as part of a multi-pronged approach to reduce the harm caused by illegal activities of
PFWs.
The IPL Section also considered several additional areas, and has provided substantive research
within this White Paper to address those areas, but did not reach any conclusions about potential
resolutions in those areas. Nonetheless, the IPL Section recommends that Congress undertake factfinding
through hearings or other public fora to consider the following issues and determine the
most effective (yet least restrictive with respect to existing U.S. individual rights and existing IP
law) solution to include in any legislative proposal:
• Whether additional incentives could be identified or implemented to encourage a broader
adoption by U.S.-based Internet businesses of voluntary actions to stem illegal pirating or
counterfeiting by PFWs; and
• Whether additional civil or criminal remedies are warranted with respect to any U.S.-based
entities that participate in the channel(s) of distribution of pirated copyrighted content or
counterfeit goods by PFWs.
The IPL Section trusts that Congress will take the analysis and recommendations presented in this
White Paper and give due consideration to crafting legislation that balances the competing
interests and finds a way to help U.S. intellectual property rightsholders defend their rights against
incursion by PFWs.
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