According to CCTV reported that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) recently announced that it will 784 suspected illegal music files downloaded from the Internet screen name proceedings.
Internet gives people the greatest degree of information resources sharing, providing great convenience to people, but also to the many problems brought about copyright protection.Because any kind of information on the Internet, work, public access to the Internet can be a powerful replication functions in unauthorized copying of its direct, copied, adapted or interpretation.With the rapid development of Internet in China, science, culture, art and other products more widely in the Internet, the Internet copyright protection issues are also increasingly to stand out.
Internet abuses intensified.The technical features of the Internet business model for copyright protection and tremendous challenges.
Internet allows people to maximize the sharing of information resources, are in the Internet you will find online such as music files, video files, text works, scientific works, art works, software, solutions, etc. resource is almost readily available.The rise of the Internet has brought great convenience to people, but more serious violations caused by the copyright owner has given a great loss.
Use the Internet to disseminate works and therefore get paid, is the law of property rights, a new Internet network operators and the vast majority of users should respect this right.Many free downloads and other services are not legally authorized.In the case of unauthorized copying, linking, plagiarism and other acts, works, or resource owners to cause severe economic losses.
The Internet is not just the rights of all copyright owners of intellectual property protection, the interests of Internet users and the industry's healthy development is equally important.However, compared with the traditional copyright issues, the Internet is more difficult to define the tort.In a networked environment, copyright has "printed copyright" jump to "digital rights."Internet has been modified in some works, decomposition, reorganized into new works, so copyright is complex; In addition, copyright protection standards of the fuzzy and the rights of copyright owners "marginalized" makes violations difficult to define, give copyright protection to a certaindifficult.
The propagation characteristics of the Internet makes it different from the copyright issues raised with the traditional copyright protection so simple, the Internet copyright protection faces great challenges.First, the infringement is difficult to confirm.Works online, download, view, temporary storage under what circumstances the right to network dissemination of information should be subject to control under what circumstances should be included in the "fair use" of the scope, boundaries are not very clear, making it difficult to confirm violations, which can notinfringer the imposition of penalties.Secondly, the network of infringing objects invisible.Such as the illegal copying and use of computer software, to "steal" to the original not as a matter of genuine software, the rightful holder of the software itself has not been damaged, and its use has not been destroyed.Third, the collective subject to infringement.Infringement is a collective network of non-conventional acts, the copyright holder of a particular individual claim or the implementation of costly punishment.Fourth, tort non-profit purposes.Online violations are not all for-profit, and some maybe just out of curiosity, interest and other purposes, such violations for the purpose of a non-profit, is difficult to be held accountable.Impact of the Internet over the existing copyright protection of these factors need to continue to improve relevant laws and regulations.
Of piracy led to a lack of formal channels to download.In addition, the game between the behavior of Internet companies on copyright protection in the way.
In the free mode is still the main mode of operation of the Internet case, the average user because of violations of the very lack of formal channels to download.Although the state to crack down on Internet piracy has intensified, but the present, a total of more than 7,000 music download site, to obtain legal authority of which no more than 20, the legal online music downloads is very difficult.
Driven by interests, some companies tend to provide free Internet download service, which is generally a free download service has not been legally authorized.The proliferation of free download service is the formal reason for the lack of download channels, especially television, music products.Internet in promoting the development of film and television entertainment to its copyright protection and also caused problems.
Internet copyright infringement in addition to the general public, the Internet companies in the unauthorized use of illegal links, and other works without permission to modify the behavior of malicious competition, but also seriously affect the online copyright protection.If the Internet fails to comply with market rules, ignoring the copyrights to take malicious competition means companies than to comply with market rules to get more benefits.In this case, makes the Internet network exists between corporate behavior of the game, if the Internet companies have to comply with market rules, then we will be fair competition, the market will be the healthy development of all on its own efforts to obtain the corresponding profits; and once oneone violation of the rules of the market, it will hurt the other party in the case of conditions for fair competition than higher profits.However, there is no punishment rules, coupled with market leverage, the injured party will not continue to follow the rules, it will cause market confusion, in the case of mutual benefit, users can only be victims and the entire industrylong-term interests.Copyright weak sense of Internet companies will access the Internet copyright issues vicious cycle, ultimately will be detrimental to the healthy development of the whole industry.
Strengthening of relevant laws and regulations and without delay the construction of the market monitoring mechanism
China has realized the importance of strengthening the Internet and the need for copyright protection, and gradually speeding up the establishment of laws and regulations.China's first copyright administrative management of the network rules, "the Administrative Protection of Copyright on the Internet" on May 30 this year, officially implemented, the network plays an important role in the protection of copyright.
In addition, enterprises should strengthen cooperation to jointly maintain market order.By China Telecom, China Mobile, China Netcom, China Unicom and other operators, as well as Sina, Sohu, Netease and other portals, and SSE Information Network Co., Ltd., Jinshan software companies more than 20 units, including network operators, contentservice providers and copyright holders have launched the "Internet Copyright Alliance."The alliance will play a role in maintaining competition in the industry order.
In addition, copyright should also strengthen the awareness of social promotion, so that the public consciously strengthen copyright protection on the Internet.Although the Chinese copyright protection on the Internet has made some achievements, but compared with developed countries there is a certain gap between the way the Internet in China long way to go.