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 Togo joined the Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms Against Unauthorized Duplication of Their Phonograms (the "Geneva Phonograms" Convention) on June 10, 2003.

On June 12, 2003 Russia banned sales of audio and video products from street vendors in order to counter sales of pirated products.

Serbia and Montenegro became party to the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty on June 13, 2003.

Papua New Guinea became party to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) on June 14, 2003.

On June 18, 20042003 [sic], the Qatar Finance Ministry signed a software licensing agreement designed to ensure all government entities, including semi-privatized and state-owned corporations use licensed software.

In June 2003, the Brazilian Congress launched a Commission of Parliamentary Inquiry (CPI) on piracy.

Kazakhstan's draft law on IPR was submitted to the Lower House of Parliament (Majilis) in June 2003, and will give the IPR Committee of the Ministry of Justice independent investigative authority.

In June 2003, the Korean Ministry of Justice sent a directive to all regional prosecutor offices to work pro-actively in pursuing IPR infringement.

Morocco's lower house passed a draft Copyright Law in June 2003.

In June 2003, the New Zealand Government proposed amendments to the Copyright Act of 1994 to make it more consistent with the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty. The amendments are intended to ensure that the Copyright Act reflects developments in digital technologies and international developments in copyright.

In June 2003, heightened anti-piracy enforcement efforts in Poland began to show an improvement in reducing the levels of copyright piracy for some industry sectors at the Warsaw Stadium.

With the adoption of new copyright amendments in June 2003, which made piracy a public crime, the copyright industries have so far witnessed some welcome improvements in the overall enforcement climate in Taiwan.

July

Effective July 1, 2003, an amendment to the Austrian Copyright Act implemented the EU Directive on the Harmonization of Certain Aspects of Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society and regulates copyrights of works on the internet, protection of computer programs and related damage compensation.

In Korea, amendments to both the Copyright Act and Computer Programs Protection Act took effect on July 1, 2003. Among other things, these amendments and implementing regulations