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The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit's (PIPCU) Infringing Website List (IWL) is part of "Operation Creative", designed to protect intellectual property produced by the UK's creative industries.
Last year, the City of London's Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit dismantled a criminal operation suspected of importing and selling counterfeit goods, seizing a shipping container full of what they believe to be more than 4,700 counterfeit versions of one of the UK's most popular beauty brands – with products including foundation, bronzer, lip gloss, eye shadow and eyebrow pencils.
The initiative, called Operation Creative, is being carried out by the City of London Police's Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) and follows a call by the unit, back in April, for advertisers to get behind a plan to tackle IP related crime by helping disrupt piracy sites' access to ad revenue.
Det Supt Maria Woodall, who oversees the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit at City of London Police, said it had suspended more than 5,500 websites selling fake luxury branded goods as well as seizing more than £3.5m worth of phony products.
They're putting together an "Infringing Website List" that will name illegal sites that they say will be identified by rights holders and vetted by the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit.
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During the investigation, the BBC accompanied City of London Police's Intellectual Property Crime Unit raiding an individual in Liverpool suspected of being the ringleader of a gang supplying the boxes to customers around the country.
Over the years I have seen how the excessive policing of intellectual property law can create unnecessary obstacles for teachers, researchers, artists, and other creators.
An organization called the Tokubetsu Kōtō Keisatsu, sometimes referred to as the "Thought Police," arrested intellectuals whose work was deemed unpatriotic.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of Russia received a routine dose of higher education in the twilight of the Soviet Union as a prelude to entering the U.S.S.R.'s secret police community, an intellectual culture in which he still remains.
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