University World News 28 March 2014
Indian academics and university students are fiercely defending their right to use copyrighted reading material for free as Indian publishers intensify their fight against the photocopying and organised counterfeiting of books.
"Legal action is initiated in one or two new [piracy] cases every month," said Manas P Saikia, managing director of Feel Books Pvt Ltd and a founding member of the Association of Publishers in India, or API.
The anti-piracy operations are being undertaken by a team of intellectual property rights lawyers hired by API.
Saikia told University World News that about 40% of India's textbooks market is affected by piracy, and that it is largely controlled by organised criminals.
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