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Strong protection of IPR is critical to boosting U.S. exports through its free-trade agreements. Speaking at a Cato trade conference, panelist Tom Giovanetti stated, "The largest silo of U.S. exports are the core IP industries." 

One study by the Institute for Policy Innovation estimates that the total piracy loss to the sound recording industries from global piracy is about $5.333 billion.

Daz Dillinger said the top-selling but controversial video game “Grand Theft Auto Five” includes his songs and lyrics without permission. Theft of digital music costs recording artists an estimated $12.5 billion annually, according to an IPI study.

Research from Spotify has claimed that although the festival season increases demand for artists’ music, it leads to a rise in its acquisition through unauthorised channels.

The Institute for Policy Innovation blasted recording artist Justin Bieber for a tweet that asked for a pirated copy of an Ultimate Fighting Championship fight in Las Vegas.

By some estimates, a quarter of today's Internet traffic is copyright-infringed media and intellectual properties being used and consumed illegally. To protect their creative works in the online environment, moviemakers, musicians, and other artists are enlisting the help of powerful, legitimate, infrastructure companies such as Internet service providers; credit card processors; and search engines that can stifle piracy-enabling sites by making it difficult for them to operate and process transactions.

Patent pools were designed to save innovators time and money by establishing cross-licensing agreements for specific technologies, but patent pools can be abused by exploiting the system to maximize profits