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Counterfeit Goods and Piracy Industry

Music Piracy

Summary

Music Piracy is the unauthorized copying, selling, and distributing of licensed music without the permission of the copyright holder.

The IFPI states the pirate trade in music is valued at $4.5 billion.

News articles regarding Music Piracy

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Market Value:
$4.5 Billion

Source:  International Federation of  the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), " The Recording Industry 2006 Piracy Report," July 27, 2006, pg.4, http://www.ifpi.org/content/library/piracy-report2006.pdf (last accessed: November 1, 2006).

 

Market Locations and Values

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Country

Market Value
Argentina

84.7 Million

Bangladesh

180 Million
Bolivia

16 Million
Brazil

151.6 Million
Chile

29.6 Million
China

451.2 Million
Colombia

62.5 Million
Czech Republic

35 Million
Ecuador

33 Million
Egypt

15 Million
Greece

30 Million
Hungary

20 Million
India

13.8 Million
Indonesia

20.2 Million
Israel

45 Million
Italy

45 Million
Kenya

13 Million
Korea, South

0.3 Million
Malaysia

16 Million
Mexico

527 Million
Morocco

10 Million
Nepal

5.6 Million
Nigeria

55 Million

Pakistan

25 Million
Peru

58.5 Million
Philippines

88.3 Million
Poland

28 Million
Romania

15 Million
Russia

313 Million

Saudi Arabia

25 Million

Singapore

1.2 Million
Spain

25 Million
Taiwan

16.2 Million
Thailand

20.7 Million
Turkey

22 Million
Ukraine

35 Million
United Kingdom

312.7 Million

Venezuela

33 Million

Source:   1

 
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Sources:

1.   Unless noted below, all figures are from : International Intellectual Property Alliance, " IIPA 2007 " Special 301" Recommendations," February 12, 2007, and April 30, 2007.   Both available at http://www.iipa.com/statistics.html (accessed: May 9, 2007).

Bangladesh Figure: Shafiq Alam, AFP, " Bangladesh music producers take law into own hands to fight piracy," Yahoo News, August 17, 2006, http://news.yahoo.com/.

Bolivia Figure based on 2004 losses provided by International Intellectual Property Alliance, " USTR 2005 " Special 301" Decisions," June 4, 2005.

  Nepal Figure: Asian News International, " Nepalese music industry losing millions to piracy," DailyIndia.com, December 7, 2006, http://www.dailyindia.com/show/90476.php/Nepalese-music-industry-losing-millions-to-piracy (accessed: December 7, 2006).

United Kingdom Figure: Reuters, " CD piracy weighs on music industry," Reuters.com, August 28, 2006,
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/home.aspx ,   (accessed: August 28, 2006), and " Britain's Music Piracy Blues," Red Herring, August 28, 2006,   http://www.redherring.com/ (accessed: September 1, 2006).

 

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