Internet copyright regulation — China: Copyright infringement in the network environment — China’s perspective

✍ Scribed by Jessica Haixia Jia

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 152 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0267-3649
• DOI: 10.1016/s0267-3649(03)00204-8

✦ Synopsis

Being a copyright-sensitive medium, computer networks have posed new challenges to owners of copyright protected works by presenting additional means to exploit them. Among various challenges as such, copyright infringement is one of the topical phenomena arising out of the lack of pertinent laws. This article examines recent legislative developments in this pivotal area of copyright protection in China, a significant market with an enormous population of network users. Firstly, the article briefs the promulgation background and main provisions of the Network Copyright Protection measure, which is the most relevant legal instrument to the issue of copyright infringement involving computer networks. In combination with China's amended Copyright Law, the article outlines the present framework of copyright infringement from the perspective of works, exclusive rights, infringements acts, defences, liability, preliminary measures, remedies and procedural miscellanies. In the following parts, some comments on China's copyright infringement system are made.