Film copyright fee standard published Internet Café operators said too high

Source: Internet
Author: User
Keywords Charge standard
Tags administration agency computer cost high internet internet + internet café
According to Xinhua News agency recently, the State Copyright administration issued a notice, published the "Film Works copyright collective management fee collection standards."  From January 1, 2011 onwards, the domestic internet cafes, long-distance bus and other means of transport to play movies, will be to the Chinese Film Copyright Association to pay a certain copyright fee.  The cost of playing the movie doubled. According to the fee standard, the daily use of Internet cafes is: computer total x Internet cafes charge x7.5% per hour. Changchun in Jilin Province, the Internet café per hour is mostly 3 yuan, according to this calculation, a small and medium-sized Internet cafes with 50 computers, the annual film royalties to more than 4,000 yuan. "Now we use the" Le Bar "software such as downloading movies, no matter how many computers, as long as more than 1000 yuan a year. If according to this standard charge, the computer more Internet cafes more suffer.  "The head of a large internet café on Changchun Road said to reporters.  Reporter in the interview found that for Internet cafes, long-distance buses and other films to pay film copyright use fee, the different interests of the main response to a big difference. Among them, the Internet café owners and some netizens reacted most strongly.  Reporters interviewed a number of Internet café bosses, they all said that a certain fee should be charged, but this charge is too high. Netizens worry that costs will be shifted to the rise in operating costs, and some fear that they will be passed on to consumers. Zhang Ming, an Changchun citizen who has just been out of campus for a year, said: This unreasonable, generally on the Internet café people are not convenient to go home, or students, go to the Internet café to see a film and have to pay another money, would like to spend less to relax, the result if the net of the day is still so expensive, do not want to go. "Zhao, who works in Changchun, said:" To provide users with online viewing or downloading videos via wired or wireless networks, if the money is passed on to our account, not only does it not have a ' free lunch ', it is a cheap ' lunch '. Shing, director of the Institute of Sociology, Jilin Academy of Social Sciences, said that the introduction of the standard for the collective management of copyright in film Works is an initiative to protect intellectual property rights. He said the topic has been mentioned for many years, and relevant departments have taken some measures, such as anti-piracy.  The introduction of this regulation, the cultural market of intellectual property can play a certain normative role. In Changchun, a public institution work, Mr. Yu believes that after the introduction of the policy, large Internet cafes will increase prices, small internet cafes in order to maintain their own survival, may find ways to avoid this fee, such as sharing resources with other sites, secretly downloading and so on.
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