Mexican Attorney General Seizes Software and Asserts Enforcement of Piracy Laws

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Wednesday, July 1, 1992
Volume: 
8
Issue: 
7
Pg. 285
Abstract: 
On June 29, 1992, the Mexican attorney general’s office conducted the first search and seizure raids of two-Mexico City based computer hardware dealers accused of illegally copying computer software. The raids and subsequent indictments will be watched as tests of the extent to which Mexico’s copyright infringement laws have been strengthened. The Washington-based Business Software Alliance jointly filed criminal complaints against the dealers with Anipco, a Mexican computer software association…[more]