IP Profile of Associations in EM

Research Questions

Are there associations in this field/market (business associations, university associations, professional associations) that are relevant for the IP debate in this field? *Identify their policies, recommendations and/or best practices related to IP of their members

National Associations

• Association of American Publishers, The (AAP)

  News article on response to second PIRG's study: http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA500814.html

• Association of American University Presses (AAUP)

• Association of Educational Publishers, The (AEP)

• Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG)

  "U.S. book industry's leading trade association for research and supply chain standards and policies."

• International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA)

  "A private sector coalition formed in 1984 to represent the U.S. copyright-based industries in bilateral and multilateral efforts to improve international protection of copyrighted materials"

  Press release: "Publishers, other copyright-related trade associations, submit annual intellectual property rights report" (http://www.taaonline.net/news/index.html#3)

• National Association of College Stores (NACS)

• Text and Academic Authors Association (TAA)

• Used Textbook Association (UTA)

  "Leads the advocacy campaign for affordable textbooks and stresses the value of used textbooks for students"

State Associations

• Arkansas Textbook Publishers Association
• Kentucky Educational Publishers' Association
• Missouri Textbook Publishers Association

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