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The Office of the Intellectual Property Enforcement<br />
Coordinator has worked to facilitate and support<br />
innovative private partnerships and voluntary<br />
stakeholder initiatives such as these. These new and<br />
evolving partnerships bring relevant private sector<br />
entities together to assess and share achievements<br />
realized against third-party exploitative acts, as well as<br />
to explore the possibility of strengthened governmentprivate<br />
collaboration and industry-led voluntary<br />
initiatives in the marketplace. Some examples of these<br />
collaborations and initiatives include:<br />
• An E-Commerce Marketplace Initiative, * a<br />
collaboration between the FBI and third-party<br />
online marketplaces, payment processors, and<br />
online advertising systems and platforms, ensures<br />
that appropriate analytical tools and techniques are<br />
in place to mitigate the manufacture, distribution,<br />
advertising, and sale of counterfeit products.<br />
• Domain Name Registry Best Practices, **<br />
launched in partnership with the Motion Picture<br />
Association of America (MPAA) and the Donuts<br />
and Redix domain name registry platforms,<br />
works to promote a safe and secure domain<br />
name system. Under the program, a “trusted<br />
notifier” system has been established as part<br />
of collaborative efforts to mitigate blatant and<br />
pervasive illegal online activity in violation of<br />
platform terms of service.<br />
• The Center for Copyright Information (CCI), † †<br />
a collaboration between the content creators and<br />
certain Internet Services Providers (ISPs), seeks<br />
to educate consumers about the importance<br />
of copyright protection through an innovative<br />
Copyright Alert System (CAS) that notifies ISP<br />
subscribers when their accounts have been<br />
identified as involving illegal activity.<br />
• Centers of Excellence and Expertise (Centers), †<br />
launched by CBP, support enhanced industry<br />
outreach and collaboration on intellectual property<br />
and other enforcement matters by focusing on<br />
industry-specific issues across ten unique trading<br />
environments. The Centers are organized along<br />
the following industry sectors: Agriculture &<br />
Prepared Products; Apparel, Footwear & Textiles;<br />
Automotive & Aerospace; Base Metals; Consumer<br />
Products & Mass Merchandising; Electronics;<br />
Industrial & Manufacturing Materials; Machinery;<br />
Petroleum, Natural Gas & Minerals; and<br />
Pharmaceuticals, Health & Chemicals.<br />
• The Center for Safe Internet Pharmacies<br />
(CSIP), ‡ a nonprofit organization founded in<br />
2011 by a group of Internet service providers<br />
and technology companies addresses the global<br />
problem of consumer access to illegitimate<br />
pharmaceuticals from illegal online pharmacies<br />
and other sources. CSIP and its members work to<br />
provide consumers and medical professionals with<br />
ways to verify online pharmacies, to report illegal<br />
online pharmacies or counterfeit pharmaceutical<br />
products, and to become educated about these<br />
issues. CSIP also collaborates with global law<br />
enforcement in support of efforts to end the threat<br />
of illegal online pharmacies.<br />
• Payment Industry Best Practices, ‡ ‡ established<br />
by leading credit card and payment processing<br />
companies, provide an identifiable complaint<br />
mechanism and procedures for withdrawing<br />
payment services to websites engaged in<br />
illicit IP-based activity, including content theft<br />
and counterfeiting.<br />
*<br />
See Department of Justice, “Justice Department Announces New<br />
Strategy to Combat Intellectual Property Crimes” (October 2, 2015),<br />
accessed from: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-<br />
announces-new-strategy-combat-intellectual-property-crimes-and-<br />
32-million; Federal Bureau of Investigation, “Countering the Growing<br />
Intellectual Property Theft Threat: Enhancing Ties Between Law<br />
Enforcement and Business” (January 22, 2016), accessed from: https://<br />
www.fbi.gov/news/stories/countering-the-growing-intellectual-propertytheft-threat.<br />
†<br />
See CBP, “Centers of Excellence and Expertise,” accessed from: https://<br />
www.cbp.gov/trade/centers-excellence-and-expertise-information.<br />
‡<br />
For more information, see The Center for Safe Internet Pharmacies at<br />
https://safemedsonline.org/.<br />
**<br />
See, e.g., Castro, Daniel. The Hill. “Industry Cooperation Takes Another<br />
Step In Fighting Online Piracy” (March 3, 2016), accessed from: http://<br />
thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/technology/271587-industry-cooperationtakes-another-step-in-fighting-online;<br />
see also Motion Picture Association<br />
of America, “Donuts and the MPAA Establish New Partnership to Reduce<br />
Online Piracy,” (February 9, 2016), accessed from http://www.mpaa.<br />
org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Donuts-and-MPAA-Establish-New-<br />
Partnership-2.9.16.pdf, and “Radix and the MPAA Establish New Partnership<br />
to Reduce Online Piracy,” (May 13, 2016), accessed from http://www.mpaa.<br />
org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Radix-and-the-MPAA-Establish-New-<br />
Partnership-to-Reduce-Online-Piracy.pdf.<br />
††<br />
For more information, see The Center for Copyright Information at http://<br />
www.copyrightinformation.org/.<br />
‡‡<br />
See The White House, “2013 Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property<br />
Enforcement,” at p. 36, accessed from https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/<br />
default/files/omb/IPEC/2013-us-ipec-joint-strategic-plan.pdf.<br />
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