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Globe welcomes progress of Senate bill to enable site blocking

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Site Blocking,Intellectual Property Code,Online Content Piracy

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GLOBE welcomed significant progress in the Senate on bills to strengthen the country's 26-year-old Intellectual Property Code and combat online content piracy through site-blocking measures.A Senate committee level hearing wrapped up on April 29, paving the way for a Technical Working Group to convene and start working on the details of the proposal.This development marks a major step forward in Globe 's long-standing #PlayItRight advocacy to help promote and protect the country’s P1.

At last week’s hearing, the committee was presented with top-line summaries from surveys conducted by YouGov on behalf of the Asia Video Industry Association’s Coalition Against Piracy showing the pervasiveness of piracy in the Philippines and its negative impact.A separate study had earlier shown that piracy undermines the creative industry and its potential contribution to the country’s economy. In 2022, it accounted for 7.3 percent to of the Philippines’ GDP.

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