p2p news / p2pnet: With Baidu.com dropping its mp3 search function because of legal and behind-the-scenes pressure from the Big Four record label conspirators, it’s no surprise to learn that, “Good progress has been made in movie copyright protection since a joint anti-piracy enforcement mechanism between China and the United States was set in motion in July”.

The quote comes in a story from official Communist China news agency Xinhua which goes on, “The verdict was reached yesterday at a Sino-US joint anti-piracy conference in Beijing, the second of its kind since August 30.

“Zhang Xinjian, vice-director of the Market Supervision Department of Ministry of Culture, said: ‘The establishment of the copyright protection co-ordination mechanism is good for both American and Chinese film industries’.”

China’s “film authorities” and Hollywood in July signed a memorandum on the, “crackdown on pirated US home video products for the protection of copyrights of Hollywood movies,” as Xinhua described it at the time.

“China’s Ministry of Culture(MOC) and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) inked the document with the MPA on Wednesday following the bilateral consensus on protecting intellectual property rights reached during US Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez’s visit to China early this week,” it stated.

MPAA mouthperson Dan ‘Jedi’ Glickman had earlier expressed personal disappointment that his employers, major studios, didn’t get everything they wanted out of the talks.

But, they did reflect, “modest progress in our ongoing efforts to improve enforcement of intellectual property rights in China,” he said.

In the meanwhile, “There has been a sharp drop in the number of pirated copies of American movie titles prior to their theatrical release in the Chinese mainland in August, September and October, according to a sample survey conducted in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) of the United States,” says Xinhua.

Or maybe not.

“In Beijing, the results were not good, with the availability of pirated versions of identified titles actually increasing from September,” the story has the MPA’s (the MPAA sans ‘America’) Asia-Pacific manm Mike Ellis, saying.

“There will be no quick fixes to China’s serious piracy problems,” he said, but, “All parties attending the conference vowed to step up anti-piracy efforts for a long period of time in the future.”

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See:-
mp3 search – Baidu kowtows to Big Music, October 26, 2005
joint anti-piracy – MPAA, China division, July 17, 2005
personal disappointment – US, China Trade talks, July 13, 2005

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