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Baidu In Search of Copyright Solutions After NCA Fine, and Lawsuits May Follow Suit

By Danny Friedmann   Baidu Inc. and QVOD were each fined 250,000 RMB on December 27, 2013 for copyright infringement by the National Copyright Administration of China (NCA) and had to enjoin their infringing activities. The NCA started the investigation … Continue reading

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Plethora of Comments Delayed Release Second Draft Revised Copyright Law

Later in June or beginning of July the National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC) will release the second draft of the revised Copyright Law. The first draft of the revised version was released March 31, 2012, see here. The NCAC … Continue reading

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Music Industry Alert: Dissonant Draft of China’s Copyright Law Might Change Tune

Articles 46 and 48 draft version of the amendment of the Copyright Law of March 2012 sounded false in the ears of many musicians in China and abroad. After their respective protests and that of music industry interest groups the … Continue reading

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China’s NCA: Authorized Copyrighted Works on Video Sharing Sites Average 76 Percent

“China’s National Copyright Administration (NCA) recently announced that on average, only 76 percent of the movies and TV series on the country’s 18 major video-sharingwebsites are authorized copyrighted works“,  wrote Lu Yanxia of Beijing Daily, edited and translated by Yao Chun … Continue reading

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Copyright Piracy in China: China Did Not Shed Its Fetish For Temporary Mass Campaigns

Blacklisting until the blacklisting goes on black again… The National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC) has started a campaign on July 21, which will last until the end of October, to blacklist websites that are found to contain pirated content. … Continue reading

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What is so special about Special 301 vis-à-vis China? Part III

Previous parts can be seen here: Part I, Part II. So what does the report say about China? On the positive side: An increase in the number of civil IP cases in the courts (would be nice if the report … Continue reading

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Japanese Companies Can Register Chinese Copyights in Japan: save 50 percent time

Copyright is an automatic right, which arises when it is created. (because of the ‘no formalities provision’ of the article 5 (2) Berne Convention). However you can register your copyright with China’s National Copyright Administration, which can be helpful to … Continue reading

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Why the Mouse Had To Go Out Of Beijing Shijingshan Amusement Park

Remember the chutzpah of a slogan ‘Disney is too far’ of Beijing Shijingshan Amusement Park, which used the menagerie of Walt Disney and Japanese cartoon figures last May, read here. It remained silent about how the story continued. So IP … Continue reading

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China Enterprise Copyright Alliance Launched

December 11, six Chinese companies: Shanda Entertainment, Netease, Sina, Microsoft China, Kingsoft and Sunchime Cartoon Group have established the China Enterprise Copyright Alliance. The plan was announced in September during the 2006 International Copyright Forum in Beijing, which was jointly … Continue reading

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