Traduction de «redevance d'utilisation de logiciels » (Français → Anglais) :

12. Considers that, with more than one out of every three copies of PC software obtained illegally worldwide, piracy continues to threaten the future of software innovation, resulting in lost jobs and tax revenues for both India and the EU; notes that, aided by a government policy of cracking down on software piracy offenders and awareness campaigns, India registered a significant drop in piracy of 2% in 2005; recognises, however, that there still is much to be done to control the gaining by Indian companies of an unfair competitive edge by the use of pirated "software" and "hardware" in production and manufacture; calls on India's State and federal governments to further reduce ...[+++] the piracy rate; notes that whilst current EU-US efforts to combat piracy will concentrate initially on China and Russia, the rest of Asia is due to follow; considers that it is in India's interests to work constructively with the EU within this effort in the light of a 2005 impact study by IDC estimating that if India is able to reduce the current piracy rate from the current 72% to 64% by 2009, India will generate 115 000 new IT jobs, and an additional USD 5 900 million pumped into its economy and an increase in tax revenues of USD 86 million;

12. Considers that, with more than one out of every three copies of PC software obtained illegally worldwide, piracy continues to threaten the future of software innovation, resulting in lost jobs and tax revenues for both India and the EU; notes that, aided by a government policy of cracking down on software piracy offenders and awareness campaigns, India registered a significant drop in piracy of 2% in 2005; recognises, however, that there still is much to be done to control the gaining by Indian companies of an unfair competitive edge by the use of pirated "software" and "hardware" in production and manufacture; calls on India's State and federal governments to further reduce ...[+++] the piracy rate; notes that whilst current EU-US efforts to combat piracy will concentrate initially on China and Russia, the rest of Asia is due to follow; considers that it is in India's interests to work constructively with the EU within this effort in the light of a 2005 impact study by IDC estimating that if India is able to reduce the current piracy rate from the current 72% to 64% by 2009, India will generate 115 000 new IT jobs, and an additional USD 5 900 million pumped into its economy and an increase in tax revenues of USD 86 million;

In fact, in the United States and Japan it is much easier to obtain patents for such inventions. On the other hand, a substantial number of small and medium-sized enterprises and those favouring the creation and use availability of free open source software, the so-called "open source community", have increasingly raised concerns about software patents.

Without interoperating software and as a result of the overwhelming Microsoft dominance in the computer software market, computers running on Windows operating systems would be de facto obliged to use Windows server software if they wanted to achieve full interoperability.

In the case of Algeria, a 15 per cent tax will be withheld on all dividends, interest and royalties, and certain exemptions are provided for interest and royalties on computer software and patents.

Chile was not in a position to agree to a 5-per-cent rate on inter-company dividends but did accept a 10-per-cent rate. However, should Chile agree in a similar agreement with another OECD country to a lower rate, that lower rate but in no case lower than 5 per cent would automatically apply in the relationship between Canada and Chile. Similar most-favoured-nation provisions are also included in the treaty with Chile with respect to the rate of withholding tax on interest and royalties, and in the treaty with Vietnam with respect to royalties on computer software, patents and know-how.