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Mayor Lim vows to phase out ‘pirates’ in Manila by June

By: - Reporter / @jgamilINQ
/ 10:28 PM May 26, 2011

Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim is optimistic “pirates” will be phased out in Manila by June.

Following a recent United States Trade Representative (USTR) report citing the Quiapo district as a notorious market for piracy, Lim has embarked on an ambitious program to stop local counterfeiters in “one total sweep.”

Recently, Lim invited local Muslim “ulamas” or religious and scholarly leaders to a dialogue at city hall, after receiving information that most of the vendors of pirated goods in Quiapo were Muslims.

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Also present at the dialogue was Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (Ipophl) director general Ricardo Blancaflor, who expressed hopes of implementing in Quiapo the same intellectual property rights protection program pursued by Ipophl in another notorious market for piracy in Metro Manila, the Greenhills Shopping Center.

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“Manila is gaining a bad image as a source of piracy, but actually, manufacturers, who we have yet to identify, are just dropping their products here. We will adopt this concerted action to stop the proliferation of pirated discs,” Lim said.

“We are asking our vendors to stop selling counterfeit wares, because if there are no vendors, there will be no industry,” he added.

Optical Media Board chief Ronnie Ricketts, who also attended the dialogue, expressed hopes piracy would be wiped out.

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