Vietnam Reproduction Rights Organisation has been set up

Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam Reproduction Rights Organisation has been set up to
ensure authors’ interests are protected by copyright.

VIETRRO’s main goal is to stamp out photocopying of books and publication on the
internet, without the author’s permission.

The organisation will legally represent those who have had their intellectual
property rights infringed.

VIETRRO will also oversee the copying and digitisation of members’ works and
protect their interests abroad.

Prof. Ho Ngoc Dai, director of the Institute of Educational Technology , was
elected chairman of executive board, which has 19 members, up to 2015.

Nguyen Kiem, chairman of the Vietnam Publishing Association and vice chairman of
VIETRRO, said foreign authors and publishers are reluctant to sell their work in
Vietnam because of piracy.
There are about 16 million students at high schools and 1.5 million students at
universities in the country, according to VIETRRO, who regularly copy material
without the author’s consent.-Enditem