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Office of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator<br />
online_ip_piracy.pdf. See also United Nations Interregional Crime<br />
and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) and International Chamber<br />
of Commerce (ICC)/Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and<br />
Piracy (BASCAP), “Confiscation of the Proceeds of Crime: A<br />
Modern Tool for Deterring Counterfeiting and Piracy” (April<br />
2013), accessed from http://www.unicri.it/services/library_<br />
documentation/publications/unicri_series/A_modern_tool_for_<br />
deterring_counterfeiting_and_piracy.pdf; European Commission,<br />
“Commission presents actions to better protect and enforce<br />
intellectual property rights” (July 1, 2014) ("The adoption of<br />
this Action Plan shows how we want to re-orientate our policy<br />
towards better compliance with intellectual property rights by the<br />
private sector", said EU Commissioner for Internal Market and<br />
Services Michel Barnier. "Rather than penalising the individual<br />
for infringing intellectual property rights, often unknowingly, the<br />
actions set out here pave the way towards a ‘follow the money’<br />
approach, with the aim of depriving commercial-scale infringers<br />
of their revenue flows."), accessed from http://europa.eu/rapid/<br />
press-release_IP-14-760_en.htm.<br />
11<br />
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)/Business Action<br />
to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP), “Roles and<br />
Responsibilities of Intermediaries: Fighting Counterfeiting and<br />
Piracy in the Supply Chain,” at p. 91 (March 2015), accessed<br />
from http://www.iccwbo.org/Advocacy-Codes-and-Rules/<br />
BASCAP/International-engagement-and-Advocacy/Roles-and-<br />
Responsibilities-of-Intermediaries/.<br />
12<br />
See Victoria Espinel, United States Intellectual Property<br />
Enforcement Coordinator, “Progress on the Intellectual Property<br />
Enforcement Strategy” (February 7, 2011), accessed from https://<br />
www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/02/07/progress-intellectualproperty-enforcement-strategy;<br />
United States Government, “2013<br />
Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement,” at pp.<br />
1-2, 36 (June 2013), accessed from https://www.whitehouse.gov/<br />
sites/default/files/omb/IPEC/2013-us-ipec-joint-strategic-plan.pdf.<br />
13<br />
See, e.g., International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition (IACC),<br />
“RogueBlock®,” accessed from http://www.iacc.org/onlineinitiatives/rogueblock<br />
(discussing the “collaborative effort of the<br />
IACC and the payment industry to create a streamlined, simplified<br />
procedure for members to report online sellers of counterfeit<br />
or pirated goods directly to credit card and financial services<br />
companies”; “To date, the program has terminated over 5,000<br />
individual counterfeiters’ merchant accounts, which has impacted<br />
over 200,000 websites.”)<br />
Digital+Advertising+on+Suspected+Infringing+Websites,<br />
citing to PRS for Music and Google, “The Six Business Models<br />
of Copyright Infringement: A data-driven study of websites<br />
considered to be infringing copyright,” at p. 11 (June 27,<br />
2012), accessed from https://www.prsformusic.com/aboutus/<br />
policyandresearch/researchandeconomics/Documents/<br />
TheSixBusinessModelsofCopyrightInfringement.pdf.<br />
17<br />
See, e.g., Digital Citizens Alliance, “Good Money Gone<br />
Bad: Digital Thieves and the Hijacking of the Online Ad<br />
Business” (February 2014) at p. 8, accessed from: http://media.<br />
digitalcitizensactionalliance.org/ 314A5A5A9ABBBBC5E3BD824CF<br />
47C46EF4B9D3A76/4af7db7f-03e7-49cb-aeb8-ad0671a4e1c7.pdf.<br />
18<br />
See, e.g., Google, “AdSense Program Policies” (“Copyrighted<br />
material. AdSense publishers may not display Google ads on<br />
webpages with content protected by copyright law unless they<br />
have the necessary legal rights to display that content. This includes<br />
sites that display copyrighted material, sites hosting copyrighted<br />
files, or sites that provide links driving traffic to sites that contain<br />
copyrighted material. . . . Counterfeit goods. AdSense publishers<br />
may not display Google ads on webpages that offer for sale<br />
or promote the sale of counterfeit goods. . . .”) accessed from<br />
https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/48182?hl=en&ref_<br />
topic=1261918&rd=1; Google, “Content Policies” (“Copyrighted<br />
material. What’s the policy? Google ads may not be displayed<br />
on websites with content protected by copyright law unless they<br />
have the necessary legal rights to display or direct traffic to that<br />
content. Some examples of copyrighted content might include<br />
MP3 and video files, television shows, software, comics, and literary<br />
works. . . .”), accessed from https://support.google.com/adsense/<br />
answer/1348688#Copyrighted_material.<br />
19<br />
Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM),<br />
“Digital Advertising on Suspected Infringing Websites,”<br />
at pp. 23-24 (January 2016) (“click generators and<br />
malware found in 51% of the ads”), accessed from https://<br />
euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/documents/ 11370/80606/<br />
Digital+Advertising+on+Suspected+Infringing+Websites. See<br />
Digital Citizens Alliance, “Good Money Gone Bad: Digital Thieves<br />
and the Hijacking of the Online Ad Business,” at p. 9 (February<br />
2014) (“The actual downloads often contain malware. These<br />
ads were extremely common, appearing on 60% of the large<br />
sites.”), accessed from http://media.digitalcitizensactionalliance.<br />
org/314A5A5A9ABBBB C5E3BD824CF47C46EF4B9D3A76/4af7d<br />
b7f-03e7-49cb-aeb8-ad0671a4e1c7.pdf.<br />
14<br />
See, e.g., International Intellectual Property Alliance,<br />
Comment Letter to U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement<br />
Coordinator, at pp. 5-6 (October 16, 2015) (providing<br />
comments in response to IPEC’s Federal Register notice of<br />
September 1, 2015), accessed from https://www.regulations.<br />
gov/?s#!documentDetail;D=OMB-2015-0003-0043.<br />
15<br />
Digital Citizens Alliance, “Good Money Still Going Bad: Digital<br />
Thieves and the Hijacking of the Online Ad Business,” at p. 1<br />
(May 2015), accessed from https://media.gractions.com/314A5A<br />
5A9ABBBBC5E3BD824CF47C46EF4B9D3A76/298a8ec6-ceb0-<br />
4543-bb0a-edc80b63f511.pdf.<br />
16<br />
See, e.g., Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market<br />
(OHIM), “Digital Advertising on Suspected Infringing<br />
Websites,” at p. 1 & n. 4 (January 2016) (explaining<br />
that “86% of peer-to-peer infringing websites exist<br />
due to advertising revenue”), accessed from https://<br />
euipo.europa.eu/ohimportal/documents/ 11370/80606/<br />
20<br />
See, e.g., United States Government, “2013 Joint Strategic Plan<br />
on Intellectual Property Enforcement,” at pp. 2, 36 (June 2013),<br />
accessed from https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/<br />
omb/IPEC/2013-us-ipec-joint-strategic-plan.pdf. For additional<br />
background on the advertising industry activities, see the following<br />
discussion in Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG), “Core<br />
Criteria for Effective Digital Advertising Assurance, version 1.0,” at<br />
page 2 (footnotes omitted) (February 2015), accessed from https://<br />
tagtoday.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Core-criteria_final.pdf:<br />
“The major advertising trade associations have recognized<br />
this issue and have taken a leadership role in addressing<br />
it. In 2012, the Association of National Advertisers (ANA)<br />
and the American Association of Advertising Agencies<br />
(4A’s), supported by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB),<br />
adopted a Statement of Best Practices to Address Online<br />
Piracy and Counterfeiting, providing language for marketers<br />
to use in their media placement contracts and insertion<br />
orders to prevent advertisements from appearing on sites<br />
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