Proposal to suspend publishing house that 'arbitrarily illustrated famous generals' books

With many violations, Culture - Information Publishing House, the publisher of the book "Famous Generals in National History", may be temporarily suspended.

The book Famous Generals in the History of the Nation was produced by the Culture - Information Publishing House in collaboration with the Center for Translation, Cultural Services and Science - Technology. The book was launched on December 5 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Vietnam People's Army.

Immediately after its release, the book was discovered to use arbitrary illustrations of unknown origin, violating copyright. The book provides information and images of nearly 50 famous generals of Vietnam. However, except for 12 modern generals with reference photos; the rest of the book provides many inappropriate illustrations such as: manga style, game style, digital art style... Besides, this book has not been registered for publication.

The book "Famous generals in national history", published by Culture - Information Publishing House, has not been registered for publication.

On the afternoon of December 10, Mr. Chu Van Hoa - Director of the Publishing Department - said that the Department had decided to recall the book Famous Generals in the History of the Nation, because the book was not on the list of registered publications (ie illegally published books).

Mr. Chu Van Hoa added that the Ministry of Information and Communications also sent an official dispatch requesting the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (the parent company of the Culture - Information Publishing House) to consider temporarily suspending the operations of the Culture - Information Publishing House to improve the organization and clarify individual responsibilities for recent violations. Previously, this publishing house had continuously committed violations that were not major but systematically had negative impacts on the book market.

According to VnExpress