China’s new copyright rules
p2p news / p2pnet: All that clapping you hear comes from the people who run the Big Six movie studios.
Backed by the Bush administration, they’ve been using the state office and their MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) to pressure China to mend its way with regard to counterfeit ‘product’ and instead use ‘official’ Hollywood or Hollywood-sanctioned releases.
Now, starting July 1, anyone in China who uploads, "texts, and performance, sound and video recordings to the Internet for downloading, copying or other use, must acquire the permission of the copyright owners and pay the required fee," says Xinhua, the official Chinese state news agency.
A new copyright regulation, "prohibits the intentional evasion or breach of technical measures to prevent copyright violations," its says. The, "production, import and supply of devices capable of evading or breaching technical measures of copyright protection and technical services" is also banned.
Anyone breaching the new cooyright rules will be liable for fines of up to 100,000 yuan ($12,500) and will have their equipment confiscated.
But, "Violations of copyright through the Internet usually involved relatively small sums of money, so the regulation had adopted the international practice of ‘notice and delete’ to handle disputes," says an official quoted by Xinhua.
"Deletion or change of digital material" are also prohibited.
"Copyright owners could send those breaching copyright a written notice and ask Internet providers to delete their works or links to their works, the regulations said," the story goes on. "Internet providers should delete the content and links upon receiving the written notice from the copyright holders."
Also See:
Xinhua – China vows to better protect copyright on Internet, May 30 2006
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May 30th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
“Copyright owners could send those breaching copyright a written notice and ask Internet providers to delete their works or links to their works, the regulations said,” the story goes on. “Internet providers should delete the content and links upon receiving the written notice from the copyright holders.”
No kidding!
Easier said than done. Actually, impossible, fantasyland is more like it.
May 30th, 2006 at 5:41 pm
Fantasyland is where the MPAA lives.
The Chinese guv is throwing the copytards a bone. Not much will change, unless it happens to suit the Chinese guv’s agenda.
June 2nd, 2006 at 3:59 am
Dvdfab is a Chinese company in bejing that produces and sells decss utility programs over the internet and these programs can be used to facilitate circumvention of a copy protected movie dvd so the copied dvd can be uploaded on the internet.
Would this be a chinese version of how dvd x copy was run out of business in the United States ?
The Chinese are well known for THEIR COPY CATTING WAYS ……………
Isn’t that the way the DMCA is interpreted in the United States ?
June 2nd, 2006 at 7:50 am
we need to look closer to home to see how copyright is abused. This site for instance asserts copyright but is not responsible for anything on the site. The contradiction allows the content filter…oops I meant publisher to have the best of both worlds, vilifying people who don’t take advertising by making an anonymous unsupportable flame into a news story.