TOKYO, Aug. 2 Kyodo Officials fro...

TOKYO, Aug. 2 Kyodo

Officials from Japanese industry associations and firms upon Friday held a meeting in Tokyo to launch an antipiracy corpse to combat the illegal reproduction of music, films, computer software and other contentment sold elsewhere in Asia, industry officials said.

The 34-member material part established at the behest of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Agency for Cultural Affairs, includes so trade groups as the Recording Industry Association of Japan and the National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan.

Major computer game companies like Nintendo Co Konami Co and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. have also joined the material part that has its secretariat at the ministry.

The antipiracy corpse will provide members with a venue to exchange piracy and litigation information, monitor overseas markets and file joint lawsuits against violators of members' intellectual quality rights, the officials said.

The trade ministry, the cultural agency and other ministries and agencies are also look forward toed to coordinate moves with the material substance to pressure other Asian dominions to crack down on piracy of music and other content

''Bootleg are the main commodity distributed in the Asian region,'' said Tsuguhiko Kadokawa, head of the fresh body and chairman of the Japan Video Software Association.

Noting that pirated video CD have caused an estimated 64 billion yen in damage to Japanese firms in Hong Kong and an estimated 53 billion yen in Taiwan, he said the antipiracy carcass will try to shoot the trend.

Japan boasts a robust exportable industry for music and other make contented with its animation products and video-game software showing powerful growth potential throughout Asia. on the other hand bootlegs have proliferated, partly proper to the ease with which like digital content can be copied and distributed throughout the Internet.

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