{"id":246571,"date":"2005-02-15T11:42:29","date_gmt":"2005-02-15T16:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/02\/us-movie-distributors-seek-evidence-against-bahamas"},"modified":"2005-02-15T11:42:29","modified_gmt":"2005-02-15T16:42:29","slug":"us-movie-distributors-seek-evidence-against-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/02\/us-movie-distributors-seek-evidence-against-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"US Movie Distributors Seek  Evidence Against Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legal representatives of the major US film distributors are set to visit Nassau in mid-March to gather evidence on &#8220;blatant&#8221; copyright infringements that will be used to encourage the US government to further pressurise the Bahamas on safeguarding intellectual property rights, The Tribune was told yesterday.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nChris Mortimor, manager of Galleria Cinemas, said he &#8220;agreed wholeheartedly&#8221; with the International Intellectual Property Alliance&#8217;s (IIPA) assessment that the Bahamas did little to enforce its copyright legislation, estimating that pirated DVDs sold by street vendors and other businesses cost his company 25-30 per cent of annual revenues.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe IIPA, in its submission to the US Trade  Representative last week, said &#8220;serious concerns&#8221; remained on the Bahamas copyright legislation and enforcement of those regulations.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<B>Source: Neil Hartnell, The Tribune<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal representatives to visit Nassau in mid-March in an attempt to press for counterfeit crackdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}