China News Finance, January 6 According to the official WeChat "National Copyright" news of the National Copyright Administration, on January 6, the National Copyright Administration met in Beijing with major record companies, songwriters copyright companies, and digital music platforms. The parties work together to maintain the order of digital music copyright and build a good ecology of digital music copyright.
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The article stated that the National Copyright Administration attaches great importance to the protection of digital music copyrights. In 2015, the special rectification of digital music copyrights was included in the key tasks of the "Jianwang Action" and formulated the "three-step" work idea of digital music legalization, namely, combating infringement and piracy, Standardizing the authorization model and improving the business model have strongly promoted the development of my country's digital music industry.
However, due to the complicated copyright issues of music works, the diverse application scenarios of works, and the inadequate authorization model formed in history, the copyright relationship of all parties in the digital music industry needs to be further regulated and straightened out.
The article pointed out that in the interview, the National Copyright Administration requires all parties in the digital music industry to abide by copyright laws and regulations, exercise and maintain rights in accordance with the law, resist all kinds of infringements on music copyright, and cooperate with the National Copyright Administration's key supervision of digital music copyright, and implement relevant The department’s measures to maintain the order of digital music copyright, support relevant copyright collective management organizations to carry out digital music authorization work in accordance with the law, and promote the widespread and orderly dissemination of digital music.
The interview emphasized that all record companies, songwriting copyright companies, and digital music platforms should adopt an authorization model that conforms to the laws of music dissemination, the principle of fairness and reasonableness, and the rules of international conventions, and should be settled through a guarantee plus actual usage sharing model, except for special circumstances. Sign an exclusive copyright agreement; improve the internal copyright management system, authorized music works should have a clear catalogue of music library, clear copyright ownership, and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the copyright owner of the music work and related rights holders; priority shall be given to resolve all parties in the digital music industry through negotiation, mediation, etc. Copyright disputes; actively explore new scenarios and new formats of music works authorized use mechanism; establish a digital music copyright operation model that meets market needs.
According to the article, the participating units stated that they will strictly implement the National Copyright Administration's interview requirements, further improve the digital music authorization model and business model, and jointly promote the construction of a good digital music copyright ecology, and promote the prosperity and healthy development of China's digital music market.
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