John Gurnsey
Gower
Hardback
208
1994
Systematic copyright theft forms part of a multi-billion dollar international industry which is able to thrive partly because it is easy to overlook what is known to be theft when the original material remains intact. But what was a 'cottage industry' 30 years ago has now become much more sophisticated so that pirate books printed in Taiwan flood the markets of West Africa and audio tapes printed in the Far East appear in Saudi Arabia Australasia and even Europe. The threat to publishers is alarming and increasing. The burgeoning of the electronic information industry today makes copyright theft an urgent issue.
Gower
Hardback
208
1994
Systematic copyright theft forms part of a multi-billion dollar international industry which is able to thrive partly because it is easy to overlook what is known to be theft when the original material remains intact. But what was a 'cottage industry' 30 years ago has now become much more sophisticated so that pirate books printed in Taiwan flood the markets of West Africa and audio tapes printed in the Far East appear in Saudi Arabia Australasia and even Europe. The threat to publishers is alarming and increasing. The burgeoning of the electronic information industry today makes copyright theft an urgent issue.