Information technologies
The audiovisual sector
Intellectual
property
Technology
in world trade
Product composition
of the world information technology
market (%)
Geographical composition
of the world information technology market
Number of Internet
hosts worldwide
Internet hosts per
country
Turnover of
the 50 leading world audiovisual companies
Breakdown of the turnover
of the 50 leading audiovisual companies
TV-viewing hours per person
Copyright becomes US export leader
Copyright industries have become the leading export from the United States, according
to Wired, a magazine specializing in the new technologies.
These industries which are growing by around 5 per cent a year finally took first
place after coming second for seven years. They brought in $60.18 billion in foreign
sales in 1997, Wired said, citing a report released on 7 May 1998 by the International
Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), a coalition that includes the Motion Picture
Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, and the National
Music Publishers Association. The Alliance said that the core copyright industries,
which include the cinema, recording and software industries, had displaced the traditional
export leaders—agriculture, aerospace and automobiles.
The IIPA report was released at a time when copyright lobbies were pushing for the
United States to strengthen its intellectual property legislation.
Goods in international
trade by level of technological intensity
