Market management helps consumers identify pirated books and 'fake' children's toys

On the morning of May 30, the General Department of Market Management opened a showroom with the theme: Week of identifying safe educational books and toys for children at 62 Trang Tien Street, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi.

Mr. Tran Huu Linh, General Director of the General Department of Market Management, introduced children's toys that are counterfeiting famous brands, violating intellectual property.

Taking place from May 30 to June 4, the exhibition will help visitors and consumers gain more knowledge and skills in identifying genuine books, publications and safe toys for children on International Children's Day, June 1.

According to the General Department of Market Management, the production and trade of counterfeit publications, pirated textbooks, reference books... have greatly affected the production and business activities of publishers. Counterfeit publications seriously affect the legitimate rights of authors, publishing units, and associated partners, destroy creativity and cause loss of State budget revenue.

Displaying some pirated educational publications seized by market management forces and comparing them with genuine products so that consumers can know how to identify them.

In particular, counterfeit educational publications will seriously affect the main users, students, due to errors in knowledge, lack of data, and lack of updated information, leading to incorrect content (border lines, sea and island issues), and knowledge acquisition. In addition, counterfeit publications with low quality printing paper and not meeting technical standards will adversely affect students' health, especially eyesight...

Mr. Tran Huu Linh, Director General of the General Department of Market Management, said the consequences of book piracy also affect Vietnam's reputation when participating in the Berne Convention for the protection of literary and artistic works.

A pirated book was found to not print the names of the islands compared to the real book, which will harm students by giving them incorrect knowledge about geography.

During this week, the showroom of the General Department of Market Management also introduced to readers many children's toy products, especially assembly toys that are popular with parents and children.

Many publishers send staff to advise readers and consumers to help them identify counterfeit publications.

Through actual inspection, the market management force discovered that subjects often mix and sell counterfeit products or products with designs that can be easily mistaken as genuine products... at prices similar to genuine products. This behavior has caused economic losses to consumers as well as legitimate businesses.

According to the General Department of Market Management, the showroom is divided into two areas, introducing over 1,000 publications and children's toys, each product has real - fake verification to help consumers identify and avoid buying products that do not ensure quality and safety.

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