Paper Launch: Taking the Profit out of IP Crime
Launch event for ‘Taking the Profit out of Intellectual Property Crime: Piracy and Organised Crime’, 11 May 2021.
The launch event explored the findings and key recommendations detailed in the RUSI Whitehall Report Taking the Profit Out of Intellectual Property Crime: Piracy and Organised Crime
The event was opened by Chris Mills, Director of Copyright and Enforcement Directorate at the UK Intellectual Property Office.
RUSI experts Ardi Janjeva and Anton Moiseienko then described how organised crime groups monetise their piracy operations and what can be done to disrupt them.
This was followed by a moderated panel discussion examining what RUSI’s recommendations might mean in practice for the UK’s future approach to piracy and intellectual property crime more broadly.
Panellists included:
Megan Heap, UK Intellectual Property Office
Assistant Chief Constable Peter O’Doherty, South East Regional Organised Crime Unit and Chair, UK Intellectual Property Crime Group
Peter Szyszko, Founder and CEO, White Bullet (advertising assurance provider)