The Music Industry News Network reports that more than nine hundred CD plants in over 70 countries have been sent new guidelines on how to avoid illegally manufacturing CDs in the latest anti-piracy educational initiative by the international recording industry.
IFPI's Good Business Practices for Optical Disc Mastering and Manufacturing Plants was first published in 1998, and provides practical guidelines to help plants identify and reject orders for pirate product. These have been sent to plants over the past two weeks by IFPI and its sister organisation in the USA, the RIAA. The revised version of the Good Business Practices sets out a step-by-step procedure for plants to follow when processing orders, as well as other measures they can implement to reduce their exposure to piracy. The emphasis is on stringent checking of orders and ensuring that customers provide the necessary evidence to show that they have the right to manufacture the music content. |
The IFPI takes this proactive steps to help the
legitimate replication industry steer clear of piracy. Of course we can only
encourage this since the use of plants to make illegal replications on large
scale is not something we like to see.
Source: Music Industry News Network
