Intellectual Property Law #2: Digital counterfeiting

For the second episode of Face au Droit de la propriété intellectuelle, Agathe PECASTAING interviews our experts on digital counterfeiting. Mathieu COULAUD, legal delegate at Syntec Numérique, and François-Pierre LANI, lawyer specializing in intellectual property at Derriennic & Associés, discuss the legal arsenal available to publishers to protect their creations.

More than 1.77 billion euros. That’s how much software publishers lose to piracy. The software black market is huge, but there are plenty of legal weapons at our disposal. Legal action follows a number of stages: first, negotiation. The scope of application is sometimes too broad, and the use of pirated software can be a simple mistake. For more serious frauds, the penalties are severe. Counterfeiting is a criminal offence, and may be referred to the criminal courts.

Our guests give us their analysis and look at the challenges facing service providers and users alike.

Program produced by Décideurs TV. June 2013.