Agencies in bid to beat the pirates
The Intellectual Property Department is to sign an agreement with 37 agencies in a push to cap piracy at 4 per cent.
Banyong Limprayoonwong, deputy director-general of the department, said caretaker Deputy Commerce Minister Preecha Laohapongchana would sign the agreement on Wednesday with the Royal Thai Police, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, music and film copyright-owners, cinema operators and 10 major department stores. They will set up special-watch areas and implement stringent suppression measures. Banyong said that 70 per cent of piracy in Thailand was committed by department stores and shopping malls and the rest by street vendors. The new measures will withdraw licences from street vendors found selling pirated goods and frequently inspect unregistered department stores and shopping malls. "Copyright-owners often say that their sales drop because of piracy," he said. "The department will consider whether a root cause [for the success of pirated goods] is lower purchasing power and the economic situation."
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