May 2, 2008
Written by: Clark Silcox
Three years ago, the Bush Administration introduced a new intellectual property rights initiative called Strategy Targeting Organized Piracy (STOP) and named a Coordinator for the program reporting the Secretary of Commerce. Both the private and public sector generally agree that the...
April 17, 2008
Written by: Clark Silcox
Last night, the Public Broadcasting System aired an excellent National Geographic film titled Illicit! based on the book by Dr. Moises Naim, editor of Foreign Affairs magazine. Dr. Naim's book addresses illegal global trade in the broad sense, and the National Geographic film...
April 7, 2008
Written by: Clark Silcox
This weekend I received an email from a consumer in the United Kingdom who had just learned that a hair iron she had purchased from a website for a favorable price (90 pounds sterling, approximately US$180..00) turned out to be...
