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Intellectual Property

Oct. 22, 2009

What Battles Await the First IP Czar?

David McGriff of Strook & Strook & Lavan says piracy may be the thorniest dilemma facing the new IP Enforcement Coordinator.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

By David McGriff

Hollywood faces many problems - rising actor salaries, the escalating cost of production and declining advertising revenues - but the thorniest dilemma may be piracy.

Once a consistent source of spectacular revenues for the movie studios, DVD revenues have fallen over the last few years, to the point now that, according to the New York Times, sales for some new release DVDs are down an astonishing 4...

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