China takes piracy steps
FROM VARIETY: Gov't destroys over 47 million illegal items
By Clifford Coonan of Variety -- Video Business, 4/22/2008
APRIL 22 | FROM VARIETY: With the Beijing Olympics a little more than three months away, everyone is focusing on China’s behavior, both past and present.Hollywood is no different.
Chinese officials say they’re taking major proactive steps to prove to the entertainment biz and the world that it is serious about stopping piracy.
Chinese copyright officials in 31 provinces this week destroyed more than 47 million pornographic and illegal publications, including pirated DVDs.
China is home to some of the world’s worst offenders on intellectual property rights evasion, prompting the U.S. to formally complain to the World Trade Organization that the country is not doing enough to stop counterfeiting.
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