LOS ANGELES – The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the world’s leading coalition dedicated to protecting the dynamic legal ecosystem for creative content, participated last week in the Europol Intellectual Property Crime Conference to reinforce the coalition’s anti-piracy mission and continue to build its global network.
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Jan van Voorn, Executive Vice President and Chief of Global Content Protection for the Motion Picture Association and Head of ACE, delivered remarks at the conference in Rome and provided an overview of ACE’s anti-piracy mission, the continued growth of its global network, recent enforcement actions and ongoing criminal cases.
“I was proud to join this important gathering to discuss the important work ACE is doing around the world to combat piracy and protect the creative economy,” van Voorn said. “As we discussed, piracy takes many forms, all of which pose a serious threat to the global economy, business and consumers.”
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Counterfeiting and piracy continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of consumers, as well as to the European economy. Imports of counterfeit and pirated goods reached EUR 119 billion in 2019, accounting for 5.8 percent of all goods entering the European Union, according to Europol.
The Europol conference – a gathering of 400 experts from law enforcement agencies, private sector and key institutional partners – was organized in partnership with the Italian Guardia di Finanza and the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition (IACC).
About The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) is the world’s leading coalition dedicated to protecting the dynamic legal market and reducing digital piracy. Driven by a comprehensive approach to addressing piracy through criminal referrals, civil litigation and cease-and-desist operations, ACE has achieved many successful global enforcement actions against illegal streaming services and sources of unauthorized content and their operators. Drawing upon the collective expertise and resources of 40 media and entertainment companies around the world and reinforced by the content protection operations of the Motion Picture Association, ACE protects the creativity and innovation that drive the global growth of core copyright and entertainment industries. The current governing board members for ACE are Amazon, Apple TV+, NBCUniversal, Netflix Studios LLC, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Paramount, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, and Warner Bros. Charles Rivkin is Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association and Chairman of ACE. For more information, please visit www.alliance4creativity.com.
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