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China Laws and Regulations Update in December 2015

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1 The State Council Issues Policy, Emphasizing Combating Fake Goods Sales and Copyright Infringements on Internet                 

On 7th November, 2015, the General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on Intensifying the Regulation of intellectual property Infringement and Counterfeiting in the Internet Domain (the “Opinions”) with the aim to strengthen regulation of infringement and counterfeiting behaviors in the internet domain and promote sound growth of the e-commerce industry. The Opinions pointed out main activities the government authorities will fight against, including online sale of counterfeited and inferior products and internet copyright infringement.

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Baidu Library Makes Huge Compensation on Copyright Infringement for Publishing Press

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(By You Yunting) Recently, in the proceeding litigation alleging copyright infringement, Beijing China Youth Book Inc. vs Baidu Library, the Beijing No.1 Intermediate People’s Court issued a judgment requiring that Baidu compensate Beijing China Youth Book Inc. 350,000 Yuan. When compared with the 20,000 Yuan compensation required for a pirated movie, the ordered compensation is much larger than expected. This simultaneously reflects the strengthening of legal sanctions against internet copyright infringement and suggests that the standard on which copyright infringement compensation is judged lacks rationality in China.

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Analysis on the Copyright Infringement on Microblog

On 30th December, the Annual Conference of Sohu Weibo Client (weibo is just kind of microbloggng service like twitter in China), 2011 was held in Beijing, and Sohu (NASDAQ: SOHU) first issued the Weibo Copyright Protection Convention among the four main microblogging platforms in China, which verifies that the author may enjoy the copyright over its tweets, and accordingly Sohu will provide protecton on it, respect its authorized use and offer aids in the legal protection. However, for the tweets tend to be brief, therefore its protection by Copyright Law has been long argued. And here is the analysis from Bridge IP Law Commentary on it.

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