China asked for greater efforts against software piracy; USITO office opens in Beijing. (United States Information Technology Office)

Tape-Disc Business, November, 1995

United States Trade Representative (USTR) officials, the Software Publishers Association (SPA) and other industry representatives met with Chinese government officials in October to urge the Chinese authorities to make good on their promises to take prompt legal action against CD-ROM factories producing pirate and counterfeit software on a commercial scale. The promises were part of the U.S.-China trade agreement signed last February after the USTR threatened China with trade sanctions if it did not improve its protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights.

The detailed action plan called for China to initiate a title verification program and to prosecute aggressively CD-ROM factories manufacturing pirate software. "They promised to take these...

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