China wants more stringent action against onlinepiraterij

The Chinese supreme court has a new interpretation of the national antipiraterijwetgeving. Companies can now be liable for linking to, and hosting, and mention of copyrighted material.

The new interpretation means that owners of websites are now become more active in action against copyrightschendend material, reports IDG. For example, if there copyrightschendende content is recommended to a user, via a particular algorithm or on the basis of popularity, is the company behind the website is responsible. The same goes for the promotion of a particular product, via a link or a description, that intellectual property rights.

According to the new interpretation, a company is also liable if it allows users to copyrightschendend material to upload. Whether or not responsibility depends not only on the presence of copyrightschendend material, also plays with the question of whether a company acts. If a website is aware is made of, for example copyrightschendende videos, the company 24 hours to remove content. Other works for which no license is present, it must within five working days to be removed.

The stricter attitude towards onlinepiraterij in China comes after a lot of complaints from various countries and companies. China often gets the accusation to be a safe haven for copyrightpiraten because of the lax enforcement of the rules. The proposal for the new interpretation is up to 1 June open for comments or enhancements of the public. Then it’s entered.