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05BRASILIA2813 | 2005-10-21 13:41 | 2011-07-11 00:00 | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | Embassy Brasilia

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    UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 06 BRASILIA 002813

    SIPDIS

    DEPT FOR EB/IPE SWILSON, AMADAMO AND WHA/BSC
    DEPT PLEASE PASS TO USTR MSULLIVAN, VESPINEL AND MSANDLER
    DEPT PLEASE PASS TO USPTO FOR JURBAN
    USDOJ FOR CCIPS/CMERRIAM
    USDOC FOR 3134/USFCS/OIO/WH/EOLSON
    USDOC FOR 4332/ITA/MAC/WH/OLAC/MWARD
    NSC FOR SCRONIN

    SENSITIVE

    E.O. 12958: N/A
    TAGS: KIPR ETRD ECON
    SUBJECT: SURVEY OF BRAZIL'S EFFORTS TO COMBAT PIRACY

    REF: A) Brasilia 487 (notal), B) Brasilia 599 (notal),
    C) 04 Brasilia 1384, D) Brasilia 1978

    ¶1. (U) Introduction. Under pressure from the USG's review of
    trade benefits under the Generalized System of Preferences
    (GSP) (ref A) and in response to domestic concerns about
    organized crime, tax losses, and risks for consumers
    associated with illegitimate products, the GoB has over the
    last one and one-half years undertaken efforts to combat
    piracy.  A survey of those efforts, with particular
    attention to copyright enforcement, follows.  End
    Introduction.

    ¶2. (U) The information provided below is not exhaustive, but
    provides highlights of actions taken by the GoB to combat
    piracy since the first extension of the GSP review in June
    ¶2004.

    Institutional Changes
    ---------------------

    ¶3. (U) National Council for Combating Piracy and other IPR
    Crimes (CNCP): On November 24, 2004, the GoB established an
    institutional foundation for combating piracy with formation
    of the permanent public-private sector National Council for
    Combating Piracy and other IPR Crimes (CNCP) (ref B).  The
    CNCP falls under the Ministry of Justice, giving it a law
    enforcement emphasis, and is chaired by the Vice-Minister of
    Justice, an activist, career law enforcement official who
    has kept the CNCP and its work on high-profile.  The
    Ministry of Justice hired an Executive Secretary and staff
    to direct and move forward Council initiatives on a day-to-
    day basis; most private sector reps give the Executive
    Secretary, who hailed from the music industry, high marks

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    for his competence and commitment.  The GoB claims the
    Council is a one-of-a-kind for including private sector
    members - three of which are directly associated with U.S.
    film, music and software industries.

    ¶4. (U) The CNCP established a roadmap for tackling piracy
    through a 99-point national action plan which was adopted in
    April, 2005.  The CNCP started working on all items, but
    broke them down according to when they were to be completed,
    in the short-term (6 months), medium-term (1 year), or long-
    term (2 years).  According to CNCP's schedule, 46 action
    items are due for completion by November 1; the Executive
    Secretary claims 11 have been completed and remains

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    confident that implementation of the remaining 35 will
    concluded on time.  The plan is lengthy, and therefore not
    as focused as desirable.  The plan covers three broad
    categories of actions: enforcement; education, and economic
    measures.

    ¶5. (U) The CNCP maintains a website
    (http://www.mj.gov.br/combatepirataria/defaul t.asp) that
    provides information on the Council, the national action
    plan, IPR events, article and news items relating to piracy,
    and a link for the public to provide info on pirate activity
    to the CNCP; a hotline has also been established for people
    who do not have access to a computer.  The Ministry of
    Planning approved inclusion of the Council in the federal
    budget, elevating its status and facilitating the
    acquisition of needed resources.  On August 31, 2005, the
    CNCP released the its first semi-annual report on the
    country's anti-piracy efforts entitled "Brazil Against
    Piracy"; the CNCP Executive Secretary emphasized the
    importance of the report since it is the first ever produced
    by the GoB to document anti-piracy actions.

    ¶6. (U) To enhance operational effectiveness, the Receita
    Federal (tax and customs) has created a specialized
    "Division for Repression of Contraband, Embezzlement, and
    Piracy" (DIREP) and as well as additional divisions
    regionally and 36 new operational units.  Specialized units
    within the Federal Police and Federal Highway Police are
    operating informally, awaiting formal approval from the
    Planning Ministry.  Receita Federal and Ministry of Justice
    now share information through the "Infoseg" system to better
    identify and interdict smugglers at the borders; the Federal
    Police has launched a new system to increase security at
    ports; and the CNCP has a formal protocol with the
    Department of Consumer Defense and Protection in the
    Ministry of Justice to assist in efforts to educate
    consumers on the risks posed by some counterfeit goods.

    Law Enforcement
    ---------------

    ¶7. (U) The Receita Federal, Federal Police, and Federal
    Highway Police have undertaken a number of large scale
    operations, principally to crack down on piracy in the
    Brazil-Paraguay border area.  The Cataratas I operation was
    conducted in the last 45 days of 2004 and yielded seizures
    valued at USD 5 million; Cataratas II was extended into 2005
    and produced record seizures in Foz do Iguacu.  Operation
    Leao Dourado (Golden Lion) maintained and intensified
    operations on the Brazil-Paraguay border.  As a result of
    the Hydra Operation coordinated by the Federal Police, one
    of the largest smuggling rings in Brazil was dismantled;
    more than 750 law enforcement agents were involved and 60
    people, including federal, highway, and military police
    officers, were arrested.  (Note. The Federal Police do not
    maintain a database with copyright enforcement statistics.)

    ¶8. (U) According to the Association for the Protection of
    Phonographic Intellectual Rights, almost 11.5 million virgin
    CDs and DVDs and 2.9 million recorded CDs and DVDs were
    seized in law enforcement operations in Brazil between
    January and July 2005.  Figures for the year are expected to
    top those for 2004 in which 17.5 million virgin CDs were
    confiscated.

    Receita Federal:

    ¶9. (U) In the first six months of this year, Receita Federal
    recorded 290 million reais (roughly USD 120.8 million) worth
    of pirated/counterfeit merchandise seized by its customs
    agents, a 45 percent increase compared to the same period in
    ¶2004.  An additional 26 million reais (about USD 10.8
    million) worth of goods were seized in July.  Receita
    Federal's new specialized DIREP division carried out 607
    operations during the first half of 2005.  Throughout
    Brazil, Receita claims that almost 700 buses used to
    transport pirated products across the border have been
    seized in 2004 and 2005; hundreds have been arrested and
    over 7,000 fined.

    ¶10. (U) Looking specifically at results for Foz do Iguacu,
    Receita seizures through September were valued at more than
    USD 43.8 million, around a 100 percent increase over the
    value seized during the same months in 2004, and already a
    31 percent increase over that seized in all of last year
    (USD 33.5 million).  Receita Federal estimates that the
    volume of pirated goods and contraband moving through Foz do
    Iguacu has decreased between 60 and 70 percent since the
    beginning of 2004.

    ¶11. (U) Receita Federal's seizures in Foz do Igaucu
    specifically of media for music, films and software have
    continued to climb, consistent with the increase it recorded
    for overall merchandise seizures.  In 2003, Receita
    confiscated 2,373,166 units of Virgin CDS/DVDS, recorded
    CDs/DVDs, tapes, and game cartridges of which the vast
    majority (2,255,048) were virgin CDs.  In 2004, the total
    seized in Foz do Iguacu reached 3,872,277 with virgin CDs
    accounting for 3,517,985.  Through July this year, the
    number of units seized totaled 4,165,443, over double the
    amount confiscated in the same period last year.  While
    virgin CDs still accounted for the vast majority
    (4,140,454), the number of virgin DVDs seized jumped from
    14,157 in 2004 to 151,457 so far this year.  Receita efforts
    to stop entry of pirated goods at the border were enhanced
    through the GoB's elimination in September 2004 of the "free
    transit" status that had existed for CD-Rs, and their
    plastic cases entering Brazilian ports for Santos and
    Paranagua, ostensibly bound for Paraguay; free transit had
    been abolished for recorded CDs in 2001.

    Highway Police:

    ¶12. (U) Brazil's Federal Highway Police have also seized
    record volumes of goods.   Looking just at CDs and DVDs, 1.6
    million units were seized between January and September this
    year, compared with 568,614 and 548,269 seized in all of
    2003 and 2004, respectively.

    State and Local Enforcement - Marketplaces:

    ¶13. (U) Although federal agencies have significantly stepped
    up seizures, pirated products are still readily available in
    local marketplaces throughout Brazil.  According to the CNCP
    Executive Secretary, the Council's initial focus was on
    coordinating federal agencies in order to stem the tide of
    pirated products entering the country.  Now that
    coordination at the federal level has improved, the CNCP is
    increasing its focus on enforcement at state and local
    levels.  The Council has incorporated IPR crimes into the
    nation's Single Public Security System (SUSP) and the
    Secretary for National Public Security (SENASP) joined the

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    CNCP in August 2005; the CNCP has charged the SENASP with
    mobilizing state and municipal authorities to fight piracy.
    Unlike federal level actions which focus mainly on gangs and
    large scale operations at the border, state and municipal
    actions focus more on the smaller producer of pirated
    products and at point-of-sale enforcement.

    ¶14. (U) The CNCP and SENASP are encouraging states to
    establish specialized IPR crime units within their police
    forces and/or tax departments; Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro
    already had such units, but have been joined by the states
    of Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Sul (in process), and Santa
    Catarina.  The CNCP's goal is to establish specialized units
    in each state's police force, as well as establish state and
    local anti-piracy councils that mirror the federal-level
    CNCP.  Only the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre
    have so far established such councils.  Some cities have
    established specialized units/offices within their public
    prosecutors' office.

    ¶15. (U) On September 21, 2005, the CNCP and SENASP announced
    a National Operation for Combating Piracy, which SENASP is
    coordinating with state police forces.  In the first four
    days of the operation, over 1 million pirated products were
    seized and more than 200 persons detained.  The operations
    were carried out in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Minas
    Gerais; they are slated to expand to an additional three
    states in October, and to include at least 10 states by the
    end of the year.  The operations are focusing on producers
    and street vendors in local markets, including some
    identified by U.S. copyright representatives as of
    particular interest.

    ¶16. (U) In Sao Paulo city alone, raids conducted September
    20-23 in the Galeria Page, the 25 de Marco avenue, Santa
    Efigenia, Santana, Voluntarios da Patria, Centro da Penha,
    Pinheiros, Largo 13, Sao Mateus, and Sao Miguel resulted in
    the seizure of around 482,000 CDs, DVDS, and tapes worth 2.2
    million reais.  In Rio de Janeiro, actions were taken in the
    camelodromo de Rua Uruguaiana (on list of well-know
    marketplaces), as well as areas in the North and West of the
    city and the Baixada Fluminense.  Local police claim that
    due to actions, piracy in Rio's area of Niteroi has been
    nearly eradicated.  Police actions in Rio de Janeiro between
    January and August resulted in the seizure of 591,931
    pirated products compared to 778,838 in all of 2004.  In
    extensive press reports, the CNCP Executive Secretary noted
    the importance of these raids not only in terms of removing
    pirated products from the streets, but also as a means of
    educating the public that piracy is a crime.

    ¶17. (U) Since February 2005, the CNCP has posted over 400
    news articles on piracy, many chronicling local police
    actions.  A sampling of info provided by the GoB and these
    news articles for later 2004 through 2005 reveals the
    following police actions at markets the private sector has
    identified as priorities:  downtown Porto Alegre (11/3/2004)
    (11/18/2004), camelodromos Campinas (12/2/2004);  Rua
    Uruguaiana - Rio de Janeiro (12/16/2004) (1/10/2005)
    (1/19/2005) (1/25/2005), Paje Gallery - Sao Paulo
    (1/6/2005); Rua Santa Efigenia - Sao Paulo (1/19/2005);
    Stand Center Gallery - Sao Paulo (1/27/2005) ; Victoria da
    Conquista - Bahia (2/16-18/2005);  and Paraguay Fair (Import
    Fair) - Brasilia (4/12/2005)(6/7/2005)
    (10/14/2005.  The Portuguese language version of CNCP's
    August 2005 report "Brazil Against Piracy" also contains
    articles detailing police actions in the various states.

    Arrests:

    ¶18. (U) Overall statistics on arrests are not available.
    According to ADEPI, the Motion Picture Associations'
    enforcement group, this year 182 people had been arrested
    for audiovisual piracy through July 2005, compared with 154
    for the entire year of 2004.

    Judiciary
    ---------

    ¶19. (U) Although merchandise seizures and arrests are up,
    Brazil's judicial system remains a weak link in its efforts
    to confront piracy.  The prosecution process is slow and
    uncertain; piracy cases have traditionally taken about 5
    years to work their way through the system.  Historically,
    the ratio of convictions to the numbers of police raids is
    less than 1%.  To date, prosecutions have been few and
    penalties are too low to act as effective deterrents.

    ¶20. (U) So far this year, 10 people have been convicted for
    audiovisual piracy.  All received a sentence including
    prison time plus fine, although only one is actually serving
    time.  This year marks the first time a person convicted for
    piracy is serving a prison sentence.  Part of the problem
    has been that current cases pre-date a July 2003 stiffening
    of penalties associated with piracy; the change was not
    retroactive.  Under the earlier, lower penalties, Brazilian
    law allows the judge to commute a jail term to a fine, if
    for instance, the defendant is a first-time offender.  For
    crimes committed after July 2003, piracy carries a penalty
    of a 2 to 4 year jail term plus a fine.  (The person serving
    time was caught in the act while on parole.)

    ¶21. (U) In compliance with the CNCP's action plan, members
    of the Council have been engaged in a dialog with judges on
    the supreme court and in the federal court system to educate
    them on the seriousness of the crime and the need for
    improved adjudication of piracy cases and stiffer penalties.
    As part of a judicial reform initiative, the Supreme Court
    is planning to establish 183 new federal courts by the end
    of 2005; a total of 400 would be established over eight
    years.  Congressional approval is pending for this
    initiative.  The President of the Supreme Court justified
    the need for additional jurisdictions to increase the
    courts' effectiveness and competency in dealing with the
    worst crimes, listing piracy alongside drug trafficking,
    arms running, and money laundering.  The court is also
    considering establishing some form of IPR expertise within
    the judicial system, either in the form of specialized
    courts or judges with specialized knowledge.  The CNCP has
    limited authority to force changes within the Brazilian
    judiciary, but its Executive Secretary has expressed
    confidence that the conviction of Law Kin Chong (see below)
    and judicial reform initiatives reveal a changing mindset
    within the judiciary.

    Law Kin Chong:

    ¶22. (U) This year, the notorious smuggler Law Kin Chong was
    sentenced to four years of partial confinement and an
    associate of Chong's received a four and one-half year jail-
    term related to their attempts to bribe the head of a
    Congressional Investigative Committee (CPI) on Piracy in
    2004 (ref C).  While the case against Chong was for bribery,
    not piracy, the GoB counts his conviction as a significant
    accomplishment and a further indication of its commitment to
    combat piracy; in previous run-ins with the law, Chong had
    always managed to work the legal system to avoid
    prosecution.  In April 2005, the Federal Police raided three
    secret depots in warehouses belonging to Law Kin Chong

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    seizing 25 million reais worth of merchandise.  On May 17,
    2005 Receita Federal levied fines of USD 23.2 million and
    USD 6.4 million against two firms belonging to the syndicate
    led by Law Kin Chong; the charges were illegal importation
    and false customs declarations for hundreds of thousands of
    CDs and DVDs.

    International Cooperation
    -------------------------

    ¶23. (U) In November 2004, Brazil forged an operational
    agreement with its Mercosul partners (Argentina, Uruguay,
    and Paraguay) to provide for establishment of
    joint/coordinated actions to fight piracy.  A June 21, 2005,
    Presidents Lula da Silva (Brazil) and Duarte (Paraguay)
    signed a memorandum of understanding establishing a joint
    intelligence group in the border area for the purpose of
    combating piracy, counterfeiting, and smuggling.

    ¶24. (U) Brazil's law enforcement agencies have worked
    closely with Interpol over the last year.  A Federal Police
    Office was seconded to Interpol's IPR Crime Unit in Lyon.
    Ronald Noble, General Secretary of Interpol, participated in
    the Regional Forum for Latin America in the International
    Congress to Combat Piracy that was held in early June in Rio
    de Janeiro.  Noble met with President da Silva and Interpol
    is to provide technical assistance in establishing
    specialized units within state police forces to combat
    piracy.  The GoB worked closely with Interpol on "Operation
    Jupiter - South America," a major anti-counterfeiting
    operation in the tri-border area of Argentina, Brazil and
    Paraguay, that was conducted in a collaborative effort
    between police, customs and industry.

    ¶25. (U) In July, USG-GoB bilateral law enforcement technical
    cooperation talks were launched (ref D).  In two meetings to
    date, the GoB interlocutors have displayed an interest in
    strengthening bilateral collaboration and in exploring how
    lessens learned by U.S. law enforcement agencies involved in
    anti-piracy work can be applied in Brazil.

    Education Campaigns
    -------------------

    ¶26. (SBU) According to the CNCP Executive Secretary, the
    private sector has dropped the ball in this area.  He
    claimed that when discussing priorities within the Council,
    the private sector wanted the GoB to focus on law
    enforcement, which it did, but the private sector had
    committed to taking the lead in the area of education, which
    it has not.  No national education campaign has been
    launched by the CNCP, even though item 22 of its action plan
    calls for one.  The Motion Picture Association's Steve Solot
    also confided to Econoff that the private sector has yet to
    follow through in this area.

    ¶27. (U) However, some government groups are moving forward.
    For instance, the National Union for Receita Federal
    technical staff, in cooperation with the Ministry of
    Justice, has launched a national campaign entitled "Original
    - Choose the Guarantee" for schools.  Likewise Brasilia's
    Federation of Industries recently launched its "I Want the
    Original" campaign and is distributing 10,000 leaflets in
    schools.  Public awareness has also been raised through now
    ubiquitous IPR events; there have been 13 major IPR
    seminars/events in the country during the first 9 months of
    the year and more locally.  The week of June 8 was IPR week
    in Rio de Janeiro which hosted the Regional Forum for Latin
    America in the International Congress to Combat Piracy
    meeting, a separate Interpol meeting, as well as training
    for judges and hundreds of police and customs agents.

    Legislative Initiatives
    -----------------------

    ¶28. (SBU) Building on bills conceived by deputies of the CPI
    on Piracy, the CNCP's Legislation Working Group, with input
    from a private sector forum, has developed draft legislation
    which proposes a number of changes in the country's penal
    code and industrial property law.  Most suggested changes
    are practical in nature, such as providing a right-holder
    with additional time for initiating legal proceedings;
    providing law enforcement agencies with the authority to
    seize maritime and aviation craft, in addition to buses,
    used to transport pirated goods; clarification of procedures
    for seizing and destroying goods, as well as enabling law
    enforcement agencies the ability to retain only samples for
    use in litigation; introducing differentiation in penalties
    between individual offenders (camelo owners) and those
    involved in a larger operation; holding responsible owners
    of media in which advertisements promote buying, renting,
    exporting or importing of goods produced in violation of IPR
    laws; incorporating penalties for software copyright
    violation into the penal code; and stiffening penalties if
    pirated goods are imported.

    ¶29. (SBU) The CNCP Executive Secretary and Foreign Ministry
    interlocutors have expressed concern to post that placing
    such a wide array of changes within one piece of legislation
    may hamper speedy consideration within Congress, but note
    that the content and form has been determined largely buy
    private sector council members.  The CNCP as a whole will
    debate the draft legislation October 31, with approval
    expected at its November meeting.

    DANILOVICH

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