Excerpt from The Summit of the Americas Hearing: Prospects for Trade and the Environment Within the Hemisphere: Hearing Before the Subcommittees on Economic Policy, Trade and Environment, and the Western Hemisphere, of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, July 13, 1994 United States. It is an issue that I raise in every single meeting that I am in with government officials, not only in Latin America but all over the world. As you know, one of my responsibilities, Congressman Smith, in eludes the chairmanship of the National Information Infrastructure Task Force. AS a result of that work, we issued a couple of weeks ago a working document on intellectual property rights protection and the new way we need to look at it because of the revolution in technology that is taking place. So we are very focused on intel lectual property rights protection issues. Mr. Smith. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I yield back the balance of my time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.