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El Fiscal Christopher Merriam, de la División de Crimen Informático y
Propiedad Intelectual del Departamento de Justicia de los Estados\
Unidos, disertará sobre: "Aspectos prácticos de la aplicación de la
legislación de propiedad intelectual en los Estados Unidos", el día
miércoles 12 de mayo en el Instituto de Estudios Empresariales de
Montevideo (IEEM), Universidad de Montevideo. El Centro de Documentación
de la Embajada de los Estados Unidos, aprovecha la oportunidad para
presentarle una selección de fuentes de información relacionadas al tema
de la disertación.

El Centro de Documentación o IRC por su sigla en inglés (Information
Resource Center) establecido para apoyar los programas de la Embajada de
los Estados Unidos de América, brinda información actualizada oficial y
no oficial sobre los Estados Unidos en las áreas de Economía,
Legislación, Democracia, Derechos Humanos, Narcotráfico, Propiedad
Intelectual, Terrorismo, Biotecnología y Asuntos de la Mujer, a un
público selecto que incluye a los oficiales del gobierno uruguayo, los
formadores de opinión en los sectores públicos y privado, académicos,
investigadores y profesionales.

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**En Internet**

## *SITIOS DE GOBIERNO*

**U.S. Department of Justice. Criminal División. Computer Crime and
Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS)**

<http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/index.html>

The Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) attorney
staff consists of about forty lawyers who focus exclusively on the
issues raised by computer and intellectual property crime.  Section
attorneys advise federal prosecutors and law enforcement agents; comment
upon and propose legislation; coordinate international efforts to combat
computer crime; litigate cases; and train all law enforcement groups.

> **\-\-\--. Fraud Section**
>
> <http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fraud.html>
>
> The Fraud Section is charged with directing the Federal law
> enforcement effort against fraud and white-collar crime. Their
> investigations often involve business crimes such as corporate fraud
> schemes; financial institution fraud; securities fraud; insurance
> fraud; fraud involving government programs such as Medicare and
> international criminal activities, including bribery of foreign
> government officials in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices
> Act.
>
> **\-\-\-\--. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)**
>
> <http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fraud/fcpa.html>
>
> **\-\-\-\--. Antitrust División. Antitrust Case Filings**
>
> <http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ms_index.htm>

**U.S. Department of Homeland Security. U. S. Customs & Border
Protection. Intellectual Property Rights\
**<http://cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/commercial_enforcement/ipr/>\
Its maintains an aggressive IPR enforcement program which devotes
substantial resources to target, intercept, detain, seize and forfeit
shipments of IPR-violative goods. The enforcement is accomplished
through the cooperative efforts of trained enforcement officers, other
government agencies, and the trade community.

**\-\-\-\--. National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center**

<http://www.ice.gov/graphics/enforce/ipr/IPRCenterFS.htm>

The IPR Center is a multi-agency Center responsible for coordinating a
unified U.S. Government response regarding IPR enforcement issues.
Investigative personnel provide core staffing from Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Particular emphasis is given to investigating major criminal
organizations and those using the Internet to facilitate IPR crime.

**Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Intellectual Property Crimes\
**<http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/fc/fifu/intellectual/ipc.htm>\
The primary objective of the FBI\'s IP program is to reduce the economic
loss associated with the counterfeiting and theft of U.S. intellectual
property by criminal conspiracies and other major offenders**.**

**Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC)**

[http://www.ifccfbi.gov](http://www.ifccfbi.gov/)

IFCC is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) and its misión is to
combat fraud committed over the Internet.

**LEGISLACIÓN**

**Title 17:Copyrights**

[**http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/**](http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/)

**Title 18, Part I, Chapter 47, Section 1030: Fraud and related activity
in connection with computers**

<http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1030.html>

**OTROS SITIOS**

**Business Software Alliance (BSA)**

<http://www.bsa.org/>

Business Software Alliance is the foremost organization dedicated to
promoting a safe and legal digital world and is the voice of the
world\'s commercial software industry and its hardware partners before
governments and in the international marketplace. Its members represent
the fastest growing industry in the world. BSA educates consumers on
software management and copyright protection, cyber security, trade,
e-commerce and other Internet-related issues.

**Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST)**

<http://www.first.org/>

This coalition brings together a variety of computer security incident
response teams from government, commercial, and academic organizations.
FIRST aims to foster cooperation and coordination in incident
prevention, to prompt rapid reaction to incidents, and to promote
information sharing among members and the community at large.

**En publicaciones periódicas**

Además de la información que se encuentra disponible en Internet, el IRC
cuenta con acceso a bases de datos que ofrecen el texto completo de más
de 10.000 publicaciones periódicas. Estos son, a modo de ejemplo,
algunos artículos recientes sobre la legislación de la Propiedad
Intelectual en los Estados Unidos.

**"Special Report on Pishing"** by [U.S. Department of Justice. Criminal
División]{.underline}. 2004. 5 pages.

<http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fraud/Phishing.pdf>

**"House Judiciary Panel Approves Database** **Piracy** **Measure"**, by
Peterson, Molly. M. CongressDaily. January 21, 2004. 2 pages.

**"Digital Millennium? Technological Protections for Copyright on the
Internet**" by Brian Leubitz. Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal.
Winter 2003, Vol. 11. Issue 2 . 30 pages.

**"Online".** Chronicle of Higher Education. November 8, 2002. 1 page

**"Concerns over Intellectual Property Rights: Intellectual Property:
Industry and Agency**" by U.S. General Accounting Office. May 10, 2002.
13 pages.

<http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02723t.pdf>

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