Federal efforts to coordinate protection of intellectual property from piracy and counterfeiting have been largely unsuccessful. And they are being undertaken by a council that “lacks clear leadership” and “struggles to define its purpose,” according to a congressional report.
The Government Accountability Office reported earlier this month in a Senate hearing that a congressionally mandated group created in 1999 has done little more than produce three annual reports that catalog the actions of individual agencies and has met infrequently.
