Publishers Ask File-Sharing Sites to Help Stop Book Piracy
A committee of the Association of American Publishers spent the past several months drafting a set of "recommendations for best practices." The group plans to meet with several file-sharing Web sites in the next few weeks to present the recommendations, said Ed McCoyd, the publishing group's executive director for digital, environmental, and accessibility affairs.
"The thrust of this is that if they want to run a business, they should do everything they can to make sure the main activity on their site is legal and not infringing," Mr. McCoyd said of the file-sharing sites.
He declined to share the draft recommendations because officials are still making final changes in their wording. But the highlights of the document were published in the latest edition of the publishing group's newsletter.
The group recommends that file-sharing sites should:
- Install filters to block copyrighted material from being posted.
- Send warning notices to users who post copyrighted material, telling them that such activity is illegal.
- Create and enforce policies that disable the accounts of users who repeatedly post copyrighted material.
- Provide links to sites that offer legal methods of buying electronic books.
- Give publishers lists of books that have been blocked or removed from their sites.
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