INDIAN STUDENTS DEMAND PIRATED READING MATERIAL
March 15th, 2014
Indian academics and university students are fiercely defending their right to use copyrighted reading material for free as Indian publishers intensify their fight against the photocopying and organised counterfeiting of books.“Legal action is initiated in one or two new [piracy] cases every month,” said Manas P Saikia, managing director of Feel Books Pvt Ltd and a founding member of the Association of Publishers in India (API). These anti-piracy operations are undertaken by a team of intellectual property rights lawyers especially hired by the API.Mr Saikia ...
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