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Microsoft In the Community
www.microsoft.com/europe/inthecommunity/lifelong/default.htm
Microsoft® Europe, Middle East and Africa, in co-operation with partners throughout Europe, has created the Microsoft European Scholar Programme to help unemployed people acquire the advanced skills needed to secure a job in the IT industry. By using funds recovered in anti-counterfeiting actions to finance the Programme, Microsoft reinvests the fruits of intellectual property enforcement efforts in tandem with governments in Europe.


Business Software Alliance - BSA
www.bsa.org/
Since 1988, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) has been the voice of the world's leading software developers before governments and with consumers in the international marketplace. Its members represent the fastest growing industry in the world. BSA educates computer users on software copyrights; advocates public policy that fosters innovation and expands trade opportunities; and fights software piracy.


International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition
www.iacc.org/
The International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition (IACC) is a multinational organization devoted solely to combating product counterfeiting and piracy. Comprised of a cross section of business and industry - from auto, apparel, luxury goods, and pharmaceuticals, to food, book publishing, software and entertainment - the IACC is devoted solely to combating product counterfeiting and piracy.


International Intellectual Property Alliance
www.iipa.com
The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) is a coalition formed in 1984 to represent the U.S. copyright-based industries - films, videos, recordings, music, business software, interactive entertainment software, books and journals - in bilateral and multilateral efforts to improve international protection of copyrighted works.


The International Communications Round Table (ICRT)
www.icrt.org
The International Communications Round Table (ICRT), is a cross-sectoral forum for the exchange of information and views on the convergence of the telecommunications, entertainment, computer and publishing industries, and the regulatory issues that this convergence will present.

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