Shanghai court finds infringement by 'best textbook in China'

Publishers of the "best Chinese textbook in China" have been far from superlative in their attention to intellectual property rights, ruled the Shanghai Pudong New Area People's Court, and now face a compensation and desist order.

The court ruled on Dec 15 that two Jiangsu-based companies must stop publishing a book they titled This is the Best Chinese Textbook in China and pay Shanghai Translation Publishing House 200,000 yuan ($32,000) in compensation for losses.

Tang Jiafang from the Shanghai publisher's copyright office told local media that the book published by Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing Ltd has nine articles selected from five of their books without authorization.