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And Now the Nit-Picking Begins

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) resolution tactics between the U.S. and Antigua could be in question by other international treaties that protect international copyrights say some in the industry. Antigua has been granted retaliatory measures against the U.S. because of the unfair and exclusionary U.S. online casinos ban – but now some are saying that Antigua may break treaty obligations by violating U.S. copyrights, even if the WTO has approved the infringement.

A key part of the debate is the fact that just because the WTO has sanctioned the copyright infringement is not enough to allow Antigua to violate the Copyright Laws set forth by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). But just because the WIPO is asserting caution to Antigua on the online casinos retaliatory measures, the Minister of Finance in Antigua, Dr. Errol Cort is skeptical about the claims and notes that the company still has full plans to capitalize on the $21million in copyright infringement that was granted to Antigua.

Cort comments on why he believes that the WTO has control to rule on the online casinos related issue, he remarks that “it would be a useless exercise to talk about going to the WTO to get some ruling and then you can’t lawfully implement the ruling. So, I don’t accept that particular view." He continues to strongly oppose the suggestion that Antigua will violate any other treaties, “It seems to me that what we would be saying at the World Trade Organisation is, notwithstanding whatever treaties you may have entered into, rulings of the WTO would have to be viewed in the context of an agreement to suspend these treaty obligations and to give supremacy to the ruling of the WTO.”

And though he seems to placidly go rebut the claims from the WIPO, Cort is adamant that Antigua is still in right in implementing plans to infringe on the U.S. music industry since is can no longer access the online casinos industry in the U.S. He comments, “I would have a big difficulty accepting what is being suggested, because if that is so, it puts a nonsense to the whole World Trade Organisation and the rulings and sanctions. It just brings the whole thing into disrepute. So I don’t accept that,” he said.