The Second Summit Forum on Legal Protection of Cultural and creative Industries held in Beijing

Absrtact: October 15 Morning News, the second Forum on the legal protection of cultural and creative industries held in Beijing, attended by experts on the latest published legislation to discuss, they believe that although the bill to increase the amount of pirated compensation to $1 million, but still belong to a relatively low

October 15 Morning News, the second Forum on the legal protection of cultural and creative industries held in Beijing, experts on the latest release of the relevant legislation discussed, they believe that although the bill to increase the amount of pirated compensation to $1 million, but still a low level, or even dampen the initiative, but to promote piracy.

Data show that the copyright law of the People's Republic of China (revised draft) was announced on March 31 this year, the amendment is mainly to increase the penalties for piracy: the amount of pirated compensation from 500,000 to 1 million yuan, more than two intentional infringers to compensate 1-3 times the amount.

Although this embodies the efforts of relevant departments to combat piracy, Hanchi, director of the Research center of Civil and Commercial law of Beijing Normal University Law school, said that the compensation standard of copyright law in our country is still very large compared with foreign countries, and it cannot effectively punish the infringer.

It is understood that at present, the court generally found that online video piracy is relatively low, such as: An Internet café pirated a TV series, usually only awarded 1000-2000 yuan, a video site piracy more than 30 episodes of hit TV series, will only be awarded 230,000 yuan, and through the normal purchase of copyright, Requires a 501 million royalties.

Copyright Party, the sun in the meeting revealed that piracy makes the company annual economic losses as much as tens of millions.

Flourishing Sun chairman and CEO Xu Lei Lei pointed out that many video sites through the technical means to invoke the "safe haven rules" to play a legal edge, and by buying a small number of genuine to conceal a lot of piracy, on the face of direct piracy has been reduced, but in fact the piracy situation is still grim.

"China's anti-piracy legislation is not backward, the key is to reverse the illegal cost of piracy, the rights of the infringer is high cost of the status quo." Piracy, especially network infringement, the cost is low to you can not imagine, you just finished right, again tort appeared, the right person's time and energy seriously enough. "Beijing Dongwei law firm, senior partner of individual Yu said.

Tanji proposed to increase the minimum limit of the amount of punishment, "otherwise 1 million yuan below the standard on the form of a fictitious, 990,000 is 1 million below, 1000 yuan is also under 1 million, 100 yuan, 50 yuan is below, not a minimum limit, it is not conducive to the rights of the right people." ”

Long engaged in intellectual property rights protection of the work of Beijing Yue law firm partner Liu Jingcao also pointed out that the current rights work encountered judicial embarrassment, the award of compensation standards are different, the amount of compensation is too low, some local court awards or even lower than the cost of rights, seriously dampened the enthusiasm of lawyers acting rights litigation.

"Over the same term, lawyers are likely to abandon intellectual property rights protection markets." So, there will be the cost of rights defenders too high and can not find an activist lawyer, the infringement of the illegal cost of cheap to wantonly piracy embarrassing situation. "Liu Jingcao said.

He also called on relevant departments to strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights, and improve the compensation standards is to curb the internet piracy of the inevitable choice and effective way.