07/12/2020
China's copyright law to be revised
Recently, the 23rd Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress voted to amend the copyright law.
The revised copyright law includes 6 chapters and 67 articles, which shall come into force on June 1st, 2021.
The main part and direction that has been changed include the following:
1、 The system of punitive damages has been added that the upper limit of legal compensation has been raised to ¥5 million yuan(RMB), and the lower limit of legal compensation has been specified as ¥500 yuan(RMB).
2、 Revise the regulation of audio-visual works, and change a cinematographic work or a work created by virtue of the analogous method of film production into audio-visual works.
3、 Reasonably expand of broadcasting rights.
4、 Modify the definition of works and the object types of works is unlimited.
5、 Revise the copyright ownership of cooperative works.
6、 Stipulate the ownership of the rights of performing in official duties.
7、 The copyright collective management organization is defined clearly as a non-profit legal person which should be managed standardizedly and whose information should be released to the public.
8、 Take great consideration on the special care for people with dyslexia