The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the Publishers Association of the UK (PA) have applauded recent steps by the Shan'xi Provincial Copyright Bureau to enforce against use of pirated books in the city of Xi'an. Working with right holder representatives and national authorities in the People's Republic of China, the Shan'xi Copyright Bureau raided warehouses belonging to a textbook center affiliated with Xi'an Jiao Tong University, seizing nearly 2000 suspected infringing titles. University officials reportedly cooperated in the inspection and enforcement action.
The books, many of which are published by AAP and PA member companies, were primarily professional, medical, scientific and technical titles belonging to publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, John Wiley & Sons, Macmillan, Pearson, Houghton Mifflin and Cambridge University Press.
AAP is the national trade association of the US book publishing industry. The association's more than 300 members include most of the major commercial publishers in the United States, as well as smaller and non-profit publishers, university presses and scholarly societies. The Publishers Association is the leading trade organisation serving book, journal and electronic publishers in the UK. It brings publishers together to discuss the main issues facing the industry and to define the practical policies that will take the industry forward.
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