AAPA in 2018

AAPA in 2018

• We welcomed LaLiga, United Media, Fox Networks Group, MCNC and Cosmote as members
• We organised and hosted a global workshop on illegal streaming, attended by over 90 people
• We supported Europol operations in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Cyprus, Bulgaria and the Netherlands.
• We worked with Dutch police to secure the conviction of a card-sharing pirate in the Netherlands
• We sponsored the second Europol IP Crime conference in Budapest, ran a workshop and made a Plenary speech with the Spanish police
• We inaugurated the AAPA award for successful anti-piracy activity, with the winner being the Spanish Grupo de Antipirateria of the Policia Nacionale and runners-up from the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Garda, Ireland and Europol’s Intellectual Property Crime Co-ordinated Coalition
• We sponsored the International IP Crime Investigators College conference in Dubai and ran an operational workshop
• We provided training to law enforcement in China, Spain, and the Ukraine
• We spoke at the Sygnal/EUIPO International Content Protection Summit and signed the Warsaw Declaration
• We built an operational relationship with Alibaba
• We welcomed Google, INTERPOL, and unicri to our meetings in Switzerland, London, Paris and Milan
• We continued to participate in EUIPO Observatory activities and were members of two Expert Groups.
• We participated in training on illegal streaming for the EUIPO Prosecutors Network

We look forward to working with you – our members, law enforcement and other associations to continue the fight against piracy in 2019.

Mark, Phill and Sheila