The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has cited the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association's (ECPA) successful online copyright defense in a submission to the government on Internet piracy issues.

Last fall, the owner of a U.K.-based Web site agreed to stop posting copyrighted materials of Christian books without permission—resolving a nearly seven-year legal battle by the ECPA.

In October, the Department of Commerce issued a notice of inquiry to the publishing industry requesting comments regarding protecting copyrighted works from online infringement. The AAP recently prepared comments on behalf of the book publishing industry after seeking input from ECPA and others.

Those comments included a description of ECPA's successful effort to shut down the Biblecentre site as well as an account of AAP's lawsuit against online file-sharing Web site Rapidshare in Germany. The comments also provided a helpful assessment of the state of digital piracy and the legislative tools needed to help publishers combat piracy, ECPA said.

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