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Created
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09TASHKENT611
2009-04-30 13:33:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Tashkent
Cable title:
UZBEKISTAN: SPECIAL 301 POINTS DELIVERED
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UNCLAS TASHKENT 000611
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR SCA/CEN
PASS TO USTR JENNIFER CHOE GROVES
DEPARTMENT FOR EEB/TPP/IPE TIMOTHY R MCGOWAN
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ECON ETRD KIPR UZ
SUBJECT: UZBEKISTAN: SPECIAL 301 POINTS DELIVERED
REF: STATE 42137
UNCLAS TASHKENT 000611
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR SCA/CEN
PASS TO USTR JENNIFER CHOE GROVES
DEPARTMENT FOR EEB/TPP/IPE TIMOTHY R MCGOWAN
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ECON ETRD KIPR UZ
SUBJECT: UZBEKISTAN: SPECIAL 301 POINTS DELIVERED
REF: STATE 42137
1. (SBU) We delivered reftel points on the 2009 Special 301 results
for Uzbekistan to Umid Shadiev in the MFA's North American
Department. Shadiev received the points without comment and said
he would forward the information to the relevant departments in the
GOU.
2. (SBU) On Tuesday, April 28, Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade
Representative Claudio Lilienfeld met with Deputy Prime Minister
Abdulla Aripov, who also heads the Uzbek Telecommunications Agency.
Aripov said the GOU would welcome any assistance the USG can give
on IPR issues and in particular wants training for its IPR and
copyright specialists. COMMENT: Aripov, unusually for an Uzbek
official, admitted that there were difficulties with the Uzbek IPR
regime, and his request for assistance sounded almost like a
heartfelt plea. END COMMENT
3. (SBU) Last week Alisher Hafizov, Lead Specialist in the
Department of Information Systems and Telecommunications at the
Council of Ministers, told us that in 2007-08 over 5000 raids had
been conducted in which more than 1.2 million pirated disks valued
at $4 billion USD had been confiscated. Furthermore, the Cabinet
of Ministers has formed a working group that brings together the
heads of ministries and other administrative structures involved in
IPR issues. The working group has adopted a plan for future
measures to be taken in regard to violation of Uzbek laws on
copyright violations.
4. (SBU) Hafizov also told us that beginning in May legal, licensed
disks from Warner Brothers will go on sale in Tashkent. The
Meloman Company in Kazakhstan, which has the rights to Warner
Brothers products in that country, has sold a portion of its
licensed disks to an Uzbek company. Hafizov told us that Uzbek
consumers will want more licensed disks once they see that these
are of much higher quality than the pirated disks that are
universally available. Hafizov said that as the demand for
licensed disks grows, it is his hope that other Western media
companies will choose to enter the Uzbek market. Hafizov reminded
us that the appearance of Warner Brother products in Tashkent will
be the first time that licensed disks have ever gone on sale in
Uzbekistan.
NORLAND
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR SCA/CEN
PASS TO USTR JENNIFER CHOE GROVES
DEPARTMENT FOR EEB/TPP/IPE TIMOTHY R MCGOWAN
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ECON ETRD KIPR UZ
SUBJECT: UZBEKISTAN: SPECIAL 301 POINTS DELIVERED
REF: STATE 42137
1. (SBU) We delivered reftel points on the 2009 Special 301 results
for Uzbekistan to Umid Shadiev in the MFA's North American
Department. Shadiev received the points without comment and said
he would forward the information to the relevant departments in the
GOU.
2. (SBU) On Tuesday, April 28, Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade
Representative Claudio Lilienfeld met with Deputy Prime Minister
Abdulla Aripov, who also heads the Uzbek Telecommunications Agency.
Aripov said the GOU would welcome any assistance the USG can give
on IPR issues and in particular wants training for its IPR and
copyright specialists. COMMENT: Aripov, unusually for an Uzbek
official, admitted that there were difficulties with the Uzbek IPR
regime, and his request for assistance sounded almost like a
heartfelt plea. END COMMENT
3. (SBU) Last week Alisher Hafizov, Lead Specialist in the
Department of Information Systems and Telecommunications at the
Council of Ministers, told us that in 2007-08 over 5000 raids had
been conducted in which more than 1.2 million pirated disks valued
at $4 billion USD had been confiscated. Furthermore, the Cabinet
of Ministers has formed a working group that brings together the
heads of ministries and other administrative structures involved in
IPR issues. The working group has adopted a plan for future
measures to be taken in regard to violation of Uzbek laws on
copyright violations.
4. (SBU) Hafizov also told us that beginning in May legal, licensed
disks from Warner Brothers will go on sale in Tashkent. The
Meloman Company in Kazakhstan, which has the rights to Warner
Brothers products in that country, has sold a portion of its
licensed disks to an Uzbek company. Hafizov told us that Uzbek
consumers will want more licensed disks once they see that these
are of much higher quality than the pirated disks that are
universally available. Hafizov said that as the demand for
licensed disks grows, it is his hope that other Western media
companies will choose to enter the Uzbek market. Hafizov reminded
us that the appearance of Warner Brother products in Tashkent will
be the first time that licensed disks have ever gone on sale in
Uzbekistan.
NORLAND