China News Service, April 25th. Yu Cike, Director of the Copyright Administration of the Central Propaganda Department, said on the 25th that this year, the National Copyright Administration will continue to increase its crackdown on infringements in the short video field, and resolutely rectify short video platforms and self-media, The infringement of public account production and operation by unauthorized copying, performance, and dissemination of other people’s films, music and other works
On the 25th, the State Council Information Office held a press conference on the implementation of the "14th Five-Year Plan" outline and speeding up the construction of a country with intellectual property rights.
At the meeting, a reporter asked questions and said that with the rise of content creation platforms such as Douyin, Kuaishou, WeChat, and Weibo, netizens have unprecedented enthusiasm for creating various content works, but infringements often occur.
Recently, dozens of film and television media units and many rights holders have issued a joint statement against short video infringement, calling on producers and operators of short video platforms and public accounts to raise their copyright awareness.
Any comment on this?
Yu Cike said that in recent years, with the rapid development of digital technology and mobile Internet, my country's online short video has also developed rapidly.
At the same time, the problem of short video infringement and piracy is relatively serious, and the majority of rights holders have expressed strong feedback, which has aroused social concern, and the National Copyright Administration also attaches great importance to it.
Yu Cike introduced that works must not be disseminated and used without permission, which is a basic principle stipulated by the Copyright Law.
This principle of course also applies to film and television works.
The National Copyright Administration has paid special attention to the copyright protection of film and television works for many years, and actively maintains the copyright order of film and television works.
During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the National Copyright Administration has continuously launched a special campaign to combat Internet infringement and piracy, "Jianwang", conducted special governance in related fields including film and television works, actively and effectively carried out early warning work for key film and television works, and announced early warnings for key film and television works List.
In the past five years, we have announced 38 batches of key film and television works early warning list, with 640 key works as key warnings, and special protection for the network communication of these excellent film and television works.
Yu Cike said that as early as 2018, the National Copyright Administration included the special rectification of online short video copyrights into the special key tasks of "Jianwang", severely cracked down on short video infringements, and focused on strengthening short video platform companies, self-media and public accounts. Copyright supervision of production operators.
This work has been ongoing for several years.
Yu Cike pointed out that this year, the National Copyright Administration will actively respond to the calls of the majority of rights holders and support and protect the legitimate demands of the majority of rights holders in accordance with the deployment of the central government to comprehensively strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights:
First, continue to intensify the crackdown on infringements in the short video field, and resolutely rectify the infringements of short video platforms, as well as the unauthorized copying, performance, and dissemination of other people's films, music, and other works by producers and operators of self-media and official accounts.
The second is to promote short video platforms, self-media and public account operating companies to fully perform their main responsibilities, effectively strengthen the construction of the copyright system, improve the copyright complaint handling mechanism, and effectively perform the obligation of reporting on illegal and criminal clues and cooperating in investigations.
The third is to encourage and support film copyright collective management organizations to strengthen their own construction, carry out collective management of film copyrights in accordance with the law, and play a good role in safeguarding the legal rights of rights holders and facilitating the legal use of users.