Writers on the Chinese mainland are expected to collect royalties from Taiwan this year, according to an agreement between the China Written Works Copyright Society and China Audio-Video Copyright Association in Taiwan.

From 2011, the Taiwan organization is authorized to collect royalties from higher learning institutes and copy shops for copying books by mainland writers and file suit against those that do not pay.

It is the first reciprocal cross-Straits copyright agreement.

(Source: Wenhui Daily)