Schroeder To Congress: Keep Pushing to Stop Piracy
She said that book piracy manifests itself in a number of different forms in China.
“Illegal commercial-scale photocopying of academic materials is the industry’s most immediate concern. Print piracy (unauthorized reprints approximating the quality and appearance of the original) and illegal translations have profound effects on the market as well,” Schroeder said. “Internet piracy in the form of sites offering illegally scanned books for download, peer-to-peer trading and unauthorized access to electronic journals and other database compilations is growing by leaps and bounds. Furthermore, trademark counterfeiting, especially with regard to books produced by university presses, misleads Chinese consumers. All of this is exacerbated by market-access barriers that deny foreign publishers the ability to freely import into the Chinese market, distribute their own materials, obtain local Chinese book publication numbers or print for the local market.”
- Companies:
- Association of American Publishers
- People:
- Patricia S. Schroeder
- Places:
- China
- U.S.
- Washington