Welcome to BASCAP
Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP)
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Country and regional iniatives - BASCAP Director Jeff Hardy presents IP recommendations to Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev
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Public Awareness - Fakes Cost More, I Buy Real is an international consumer awareness campaign
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Intergovernmental agenda - BASCAP attended the 7th Global Congress in Istanbul, Turkey
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Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP) is an ICC initiative started in 2004
Counterfeiting and piracy is everyone's problem
The massive infiltration of counterfeit and pirated
goods drain $1 trillion from the global economy and robs over 2.5 million jobs
worldwide. Millions of fake products, in virtually every product category,
are being produced and shipped around the world to developing and developed
markets alike at increasingly alarming rates. Millions of consumers are now
at risk by unsafe an ineffective products, while governments, businesses
and society are being robbed of hundreds of billions in tax revenues, income
and jobs.
A disorder of this magnitude undermines economic development, a sound
market economy system and open international trade and investment. No
legitimate business or country is immune to the impact of counterfeiting
and piracy and no single actor can successfully fight this battle alone,
which is why the ICC create the Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting
and Piracy (BASCAP).
Newest BASCAP publications
Counterfeiting, Piracy and Smuggling in India - Effects and
Possible Solutions, is a case study of the economic impacts of
counterfeiting, piracy and smuggling in India. Recommendations to improve
India's intellectual property rights regime calls for stronger enforcement of
existing laws and regulations.
Read
more about the new India from BASCAP and FICCI
Controlling the Zone: Balancing facilitation and control to
combat illicit trade in the world's Free Trade Zones, is
a BASCAP report calling for increased
regulation and better management of Free Trade Zones (FTZs) which, without
proper oversight, can be vulnerable to counterfeiting and piracy. The report
concludes with key recommendations to improve enforcement or intellectual
property rights.
Download
"Controlling the Zone" report
Join the fight
BASCAP
membership strengthens your company's internal capability to deal with
counterfeiting and piracy of your brands. Membership allows you access to
the Global Leadership Group (GLG), comprised of over a dozen CEOs from
international companies and a host of benefits including a member driven
agenda and action at the highest levels.