VietNamNet Bridge – Tri Viet (First News) Publishing House has filed a lawsuit against the private printing center Huy Thi for violation of copyright.

Publisher continues on anti-piracy crusade

The Tri Viet (First News) Publishing House's publications were found to be illegally printed at the private Huy Thi printing centre.--VNS Photo thethaovanhoa.vn

Nguyen Van Phuoc, director of First News, said that the case will come to trial at a court in Thanh Tri District, Hanoi this month.

On November 12, 2011 after two months of monitoring the printing firm to collect proof, local police detected 10,000 illegal printed books and discovered that the firm were selling a number of pirated publications.

Many of First News’s publications were found. The center was fined VND12 million and resumed operations as normal.

Disagreeing with the punishment, First News in July last year filed a lawsuit on the center to take back its copyright. Now the publisher is demanding that the center increases the amount of compensation and publicly apologizes to the publisher on local media.

This is the fourth time the publishing house has pursued a lawsuit on copyright infringements, but it is the first time it has sued a publishing body.

Previously, Tri Viet sued foreign language-training centers for using illegally-copied publications during their operations. The pirated books were allegedly photocopied and sold in many training centers.

In 2009, 2010 and 2011, Tri Viet discovered that various localities had copied Tri Viet’s books and CDs. Tri Viet had originally bought the publishing rights from the U.S.-based company Compass Media.

“We’ll pursue every infringement through the court. If we win this case, like previous cases, we will spend VND100 million of the money we receive in compensation on scholarships for poor, hard-working students,” said Phuoc.

Source: SGT