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The Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) under the Ministry of Economic Affairs will concentrate on cracking down on pirated books, a TIPO official said Tuesday. Lu Wen-hsiang, vice director of the TIPO, told a news conference while unveiling an anti-piracy advertisement that book piracy has not aroused the same public awareness as piracy of software, music and movies, because, he claimed, it “prevails only among university students” who prefer to download digital books from the Internet or steal the work of authors by buying pirated books rather than buying authentic copies. “Therefore we will try to instill into them the respect for intellectual property through an advertising campaign using film and posters that should appeal to youth,” Lu said. In order to get the maximum publicity, Lu said, the advertising campaign was timed to launch to coincide with the beginning of the new semester and the beginning of the Taipei International Book Exhibition 2005, which opened that day. Lu said he hopes the ads will also impress foreign publishers who visit Taiwan for the book exhibition.”
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