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BIZCHINA / Center
Nation's IPR efforts lauded
By Liu Weifeng (China Daily)
Updated: 2007-07-19 09:00
China's unremitting efforts in establishing a legal framework for
intellectual property rights (IPR) at home and abroad has won praise.
Michael S. Keplinger, deputy director-general of the World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO), said China is a significant contributor and
an important player in protecting copyright owners' interests in the
international arena.
He made the remarks yesterday at the 2nd International Copyright Forum
focusing on Internet IPR issues on fighting unlimited and unauthorized
downloads and online content infringement.
"China is a leader and committed to the creativity-based IPR development
model," Keplinger said, referring to two WIOP Internet Treaties -
Copyright Treaty and Performance and Phonograms Treaty - which took
effect in China last month.
By endorsing the treaties, Chinese copyright creators will be granted
legal protection in international disputes among the 60 signatory
countries.
China took no more than six years in establishing the legal framework for
IPR protection on cyberspace, which Keplinger said was "an amazing
development".
However, Yan Xiaohong, vice-minister of the China National Copyright
Administration, admitted China lacks an effective enforcement taskforce
to supervise and tackle IPR violations.
The general public, too, has limited knowledge of how to get involved in
counter-copyright-violation activities, he said.
"We've long been targeting illegal Internet content carriers but seldom
put surveillance on the mass users," Yan said.
Statistics show 1 billion unauthorized music tracks are download using
peer-to-peer networks every month globally and some 400,000 to 600,000
films are illegally downloaded each day across the world.
The speed of transmitting information and without geographical limits,
copyright infringement on cyberspace is difficult to detect.
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