出版社：AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law
摘要：Piracy and counterfeiting alone cost European businesses a staggering €250 billion in lost sales each year. The problem is aggravated by the rising volume of goods bought by European Union (EU) citizens online and shipped to them by post from countries outside the EU. The economic relevance of the phenomenon is hardly disputable. If one considers that the competitiveness of modern economies is increasingly based on creativity and innovation, it comes as no surprise that legislators, who are under the legitimate increasing pressure of intellectual property rights holders’ lobbies, look at the adoption of new and more effective measures to tackle these kinds of infringements
