| For at least five years, Hunan Magic
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| | acknowledges the government faces a
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| Power Industrial Corporation in China
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| | long-term challenge. "Many Chinese
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| illegally sold its industrial adhesives
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| | companies believe it's a crime to steal
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| under the label of the U.S. company, ABRO
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| | things from others but it's not a crime
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| Industries. The cheap knock offs cost
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| | to steal the brands and innovations of
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| ABRO millions of dollars in sales -- and
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| | others. We must educate them and tell
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| job losses for its suppliers. The case is
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| | them that it is as much of a crime to
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| one example of the serious consequences
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| | steal objects as it is to violate
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| of piracy and the openness with which
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| | intellectual property rights by copying
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| Chinese counterfeiters are working. In
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| | them."
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| this third of a series of reports, Luis
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| | That may be easier said than done.
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| Ramirez reports from Beijing that there
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| | Piracy is a big industry here, and even
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| are efforts within the national
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| | the highly regulated Olympic trademark is
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| leadership to stop product piracy.
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| | illegally copied and sold openly on the
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| It is a scene that has become a
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| | streets of Beijing.
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| cliché in China. The Beijing
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| | State-owned stores are not setting any
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| government shows off its anti-piracy
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| | examples. One sells copies of Hollywood's
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| efforts to foreign reporters.
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| | latest releases for about $2. U.S.
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| In the ABRO piracy case, those efforts
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| | officials estimate 95 percent of all CD's
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| may have worked. Under pressure, the
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| | and DVD's produced in China are
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| Hunan Magic Power Industrial Company in
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| | counterfeit.
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| China's Hunan province says it has
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| | A crackdown would hurt businesses that
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| stopped making fake ABRO products.
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| | peddle fake U.S. designer clothing.
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| The company declined interview requests
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| | Analysts say enforcement is likely to
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| but a company source told VOA off-camera
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| | remain uneven at best.
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| that authorities forced the firm in April
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| | Aside from economic considerations, Huang
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| to obey Chinese trademark laws and stop
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| | says officials have issues like poor
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| using the ABRO name.
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| | coordination and corruption to contend
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| However, using Magic Power's own brand
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| | with. But, he also says China is being
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| has hurt sales. The source says most
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| | unfairly criticized. "Intellectual
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| buyers want a brand they can recognize.
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| | property rights infringement does exist
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| This is why ABRO president Peter Baranay
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| | in Chinese companies. This situation does
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| remains skeptical that Hunan Magic Power
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| | not only exist in China, but also in
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| will stop counterfeiting ABRO products.
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| | other countries around the world."
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| "I doubt they will do it. It's been too
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| | China is indeed not alone in pirating
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| good of a deal for them. They've had too
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| | American designer shirts and other
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| good of a run. They're not going to stop
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| | products. Russia, Argentina, Egypt,
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| it now."
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| | Lebanon, Thailand, and Venezuela are
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| Even if Magic Power does stop, there is
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| | among the top 10 of a list of copyright
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| no guarantee others will not start
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| | violators that U.S. officials are keeping
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| copying ABRO's products again the moment
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| | an eye on. But with 68 percent of all
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| the spotlight is turned away.
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| | counterfeit products seized at U.S. ports
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| At China's Ministry of Commerce, Huang
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| | coming from China, Beijing is the number
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| Hai, the official in charge of
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| | one offender.
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| Intellectual Property Rights protection
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