Properties used to manufacture and sell improperly labeled recordings and audiovisual works a nuisance in Los Angeles County

Submitted by Mike Scott on Fri, 05/09/2008 - 12:53

As reported through the Wired Blogi Network the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has declared that using property within the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles for for the manufacturing, distributing, selling, or possessing for sale of counterfeit goods. or recordinqs or audiovisual works which are improperlv labeled a public nuisance. Though this does implicate some forms of piracy it is limited to actions that violate California Penal Code Section 653w.


From the site:

A copy of the ordinance is available through David Kravets' Blog "Los Angeles says piracy 'detrimental to the public health, safety'

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/05/los-angeles-say.html
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