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Antigua and Barbuda File $3.44 Billion WTO Claim Against USAThu, Jun 21st, 2007 @ 12:00am Following the European Union's claim filed earlier this week, the tiny dual island nation of Antigua and Barbuda has lodged a claim for $3.44 billion compensation from the United States over its decision to withdraw certain World Trade Organization (WTO) commitments, which it will seek primarily through the suspension of global copyright and intellectual property rights agreements. If the WTO were to allow the Antiguans to suspend all intellectual property obligations to the United States, the American IP industry could face a tiny adversary with an unlimited right to reproduce for its own benefit American IP goods of any kind, from automobiles to shoes to semiconductor technologies. Anyone for cheap Microsoft software, or the latest DVDs, CDs and games flooding the market?? Antigua and Barbuda filed the original WTO case in 2003 against the United States for their protectionist behavior preventing foreign online gambling and online poker companies from accepting US customers, while still allowing domestic online gambling. Antigua claimed the US was not in compliance with the trade commitments made when it joined the WTO. The WTO ruled several times against the United States, and has maintained that the U.S. could keep restrictions against online gambling if they were also applied equally to US-based businesses, citing 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) carve outs for U.S. businesses such as horse racing, state lotteries and fantasy sports. In not yielding to opening up the online gambling business, the United States Trade Representative's (USTR) has taken a similar hard line to that of the US Department of Justice (DOJ). Several people have noted from American arguments in front of the WTO that it is apparent the two have been working together on this case, which is not surprising, since this dispute revolves around American criminal law and how it impacts internet gambling. When the U.S. lost its final appeal March 2007, the USTR announced that it would take the unprecedented legal step of changing the international commitments it made as part of the 1994 General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) agreement amongst the 150 members of the WTO. As a result, the U.S. declined to challenge the WTO ruling, because it says that its legal maneuver effectively ends the case (click here for related article). Under the GATS, if a country withdraws its commitments other nations can seek compensation for any services trade opportunities that they could prove they lost through the change. Which is exactly what the EU and now Antigua and Barbuda have done. How many other WTO countries will file similar suits before the June 22 deadline to do so passes? China and Japan are expected to react shortly. Read Related Articles:
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First Korean Champ of Asia Pacific Poker Tour Crowned in Cebu Another stop on the Asia Pacific Poker Tour is in the books, this time it's the APPT Cebu in the Philippines, and for the very first time a Korean player has come out on top.
Pollack Done as Commish of World Series of Poker Just three days after crowning Joe Cada as the 2009 Main Event champion, officially closing the special 40th anniversary run of the World Series of Poker, Jeffrey Pollack has resigned his post as Commissioner of the WSOP.
Durrrr Signs as Team Full Tilt's Youngest Member Tom "durrrr" Dwan is the newest member of Team Full Tilt, the online site's highest level of affiliation. At 23, Dwan is the youngest of the now 14-person team. The high stakes cash phenomenon was nominated for induction this year into the Poker Hall of Fame until the Hall of Fame Governing Council decided he was too young to meet the "has stood the test of time" qualification.
Joe Cada Becomes Youngest World Series of Poker Main Event Champ History was made early Tuesday morning in Las Vegas as 21-year-old Joe Cada outlasted Darvin Moon in heads-up play to claim the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event bracelet and more than $8.5 million.
Moon and Cada Heads-Up, Ivey 7th at WSOP Main Event Final Table After a marathon session at the most esteemed table in the poker world, a 21-year-old and a logger are set to go one-on-one for the World Series of Poker Main Event bracelet.
PokerStars Launches New UK and Ireland Poker Tour PokerStars.com has announced the start of a new poker tour with stops throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland. The UK and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) will kick off in Galway, Ireland in mid-December, and the first event in the UK will be held in Manchester in February.
Peerless Media Agrees to Purchase World Poker Tour Enterprises According to a Monday press release, WPT Enterprises Inc., mothership of the World Poker Tour, is now the rightful property of Peerless Media, Ltd., subsidiary of online giant PartyGaming.
Tiffany Michelle and Maria Ho Hit the Amazing Race Rail After surviving six legs of the Amazing Race by the skin of their teeth, poker pros Tiffany Michelle and Maria Ho were finally eliminated in the CBS reality show's most recently aired episode. Michelle and Ho, the last women standing in the 2008 and 2007 World Series of Poker Main Events, gave reality television fans another chance to watch poker personalities compete away from the felt. Annie Duke garnered quite a following earlier in the year on another reality show competition, NBC's Celebrity Apprentice. |
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