August 19, 2004. “The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is pleased to support the American International Education Foundation’s (AIEF) 2004 Shanghai IPR Workshop. Workshop participants will include government officials, educators, industry representatives and legal professionals from China and the U.S. The program will include workshops and panel discussions on the counterfeiting and piracy problems in Shanghai and will certainly be a benefit to those involved in combating counterfeiting and piracy.” 

For more information, please contact Dan Hewitt at ESA. Tel.: 202-223-2400. Email: dhewitt@theESA.com

About the Entertainment Software Association: : The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is the U.S. association dedicated to serving the business and public affairs needs of companies publishing interactive games for video game consoles, handheld devices, personal computers and the Internet. ESA members collectively account for more than 90 percent of the more than $7 billion in entertainment software sold in the United States in 2003, and billions more in export sales of American-made entertainment software. The ESA offers a variety of services to entertainment software publishers including an anti-piracy program, business and consumer research, government relations and First Amendment and intellectual property policy efforts; the ESA also owns the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show.