Public Relations of the Indonesian Publisher Association (Ikapi) Arys Hilman said that currently there are still many marketplaces or places to sell online that ignore pirated books. He said, there are still many sellers who openly sell pirated books. This is a serious problem for IP Indonesia.
Pirated booksellers in such marketplaces even provide thousands of books. This shows that piracy of intellectual works has become an industry in Indonesia.
The marketplace also seems to ignore it because there are still many sellers with pirated goods. "If a publisher complains about the problem, then the publisher must submit a convoluted process so that the book is taken down or the seller is blacklisted," said Arys when met on Monday (4/11).
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Not only that, in book markets, people can easily find pirated books. The price of a pirated book can be as much as a quarter of the original price of the book. This, said Arys, was very detrimental to the parties who produced the book.
Many people, he said, also think book piracy is not a crime. They think that books are a source of knowledge so they should be disseminated.
However, this assumption is actually wrong. Because, once someone allows a piracy, what happens is a slow killing of the creative world. According to the Bookkeeping System Law Number 3 of 2017, bookkeeping actors include writers, editors, illustrators, cover designers, including bookstores. "There will be many people who are disadvantaged and it kills creativity," he said again.