Did you know Mexico occupies the first place in pirate book sales? According to experts, 4 out of 10 books that are consumed in the country are illegal. In this field there are two types of piracy, industrial and of internet, because both in print and digital there are irregularities.
In most cases, the books that are sold on the public highway or at the flea market are pirated, since there is no publishing house that distributes to the informal market. On the surface these books appear original and to some extent they deceive the buyer, their price is almost always 20% cheaper than in formally established bookstores.
According to Quetzalli de la Concha, Legal and Copyright manager of the publishing group Penguin Random House, the criminals they don’t care about the quality Of the products they sell, in this case, pirated books may be poorly glued, bound backwards, and even have missing pages or chapters.
The digital part is not encouraging either and there are several internet sites where the users can download books “Free”, when in fact the objective of these pages that offer pirated books, is to obtain the personal information of the people to profit with it or to hack their computers.
According to the information of the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property, the consumption of illegal content on the network reaches 48%; In 2020 alone, screen reading grew by 40% and digital book billing only 2%, with this it is possible to know the difference between legal and illegal consumption of books in Mexico.
The copyright and illegality of books in Mexico
–
The photocopy totally or partially a book, incurs a illicit practice that generates great economic losses and damages the intellectual property rights of the authors. According to data from CEMPRO (Centro Mexicano de Protección y Fomento de los Derechos de Autor, Sociedad de Gestión Colectiva), in Mexico around 5 billion photocopies of copyrighted material.
On the other hand, the sale of pirated books in Mexico, for a year, amounts to around 800 million pesos. In this sense, experts call on the population to reflect on the editorial illegality that exists in the country and invite them to legally acquire the books whether printed or digital, in order to protect copyright Y respect the work of authors, editors and publishing houses that employ more than 400 thousand families.
The news by all means. Download our app
DEPS
– .
