Benefits of Membership:

BASCAP was created to strengthen a company’s internal capability to deal with the counterfeiting or piracy of its products or brands.  

1. Leverage. Participation in this unique coalition of companies working across sectors, enables a member to combine its own experience with those of other BASCAP members to build a comprehensive and compelling case to governments that the problem is: bigger and more critical than any one company or sector’s corporate losses; more damaging to economic growth than may be currently understood.
2. Pooling resources. Membership in BASCAP provides members with a vehicle to pool funding and create a greater critical mass of resources for pressing governments for more effective IP enforcement.
3. Member-driven agenda. A hallmark of BASCAP is that it exists to serve the objectives of members. The strategies and programs undertaken by BASCAP are developed with the input and approval of the member companies through their direct participation in the Steering Committee and the Global Leadership Group. Only those projects that support and leverage member company objectives in a particular region, country, forum or subject area are pursued.
4. ICC umbrella. BASCAP is an initiative of the International Chamber of Commerce, the recognized voice of global business. This provides BASCAP members with immediate recognition among government and NGO leaders. It also delivers access to Intergovernmental Organizations, including UN forums via ICC’s unique consultative status with UN agencies, and to the resources and connections of ICC’s broad network of national committees, located in 90 countries and providing powerful on-the-ground resources for reaching and influencing national and local policymakers. Finally, the connection to ICC allows BASCAP to leverage the reach of the ICC Communications Department and its wide-ranging network of global media contacts.
5. Action at the highest levels. BASCAP creates an opportunity for member CEOs and top executives to exchange views and priorities with other CEOs and directly impact the strategic direction of the effort. BASCAP also provides a platform for CEOs to join together to address global audiences and communicate directly with national government ministers and IGO officials through personal meetings, letters or the international media.
6. Steering committee. Each company is represented on the BASCAP Steering Committee, giving the company an opportunity to directly: Participate in cross-sector, global business engagement to collectively tackle counterfeiting and piracy; Contribute company-specific guidance, expertise and experience; Exchange views and practices with other senior corporate executives engaged in the protection of intellectual property rights; Shape international business policies and messages to national government leaders, UN agencies and the public and media; Develop tools, intelligence, policies and products to leverage company-specific work; Demonstrate global leadership in communicating the critical value of intellectual property in economic and social development.
7.  Corporate responsibility. Companies that join BASCAP do so to emphasize that the protection of intellectual property rights is a social and economic imperative. They are committed to the belief that the erosion of these protections, through the illegal practices of counterfeiting and piracy, are debilitating to all companies that invest in intellectual capital – not just their own.

Membership:

BASCAP is open to all companies and organizations, large and small, committed to the fight against counterfeiting and piracy. Participants are invited to endorse BASCAP objectives, contribute to the development of BASCAP projects and lend their organizations name to the BASCAP global list of supporters.