Abstract
On March 31, 2012, China’s National Copyright Administration of the People’s Republic of China (NCAC) published the Draft Amendment to the Copyright Law at its Web site to seek public feedback. Some articles in the current Draft Amendments, such as Articles 46 and 48, have attracted the most attention from the public, especially the music industry, because they involve unauthorized use of copyrighted material. Some musician indicated that “the draft clearly favored Internet.” This paper wants to discuss those controversial articles under the Draft Amendments and some other solution except legislation for musicians to face digital era with an aim to make a healthy development of digital music sector in China.
Published by “Proceedings of the Twelfth Wuhan International Conference on e-Business <WHICEB 2013>”, May 25, 2013, pp. 76–80
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Notes
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Copyright Law providing that one may use music works without authorization was questioned (Chinese version), http://www.chinamedia360.com/newspage/20120826/3E51BBC3F7194CC0.html. 5 Apr 2012.
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Copyright Law of the People’s Republic of China (Revision Draft), http://www.cpahkltd.com/EN/info.aspx?n=4848717495.
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Guo, Y., Hu, W. (2015). Digital Music Copyright Protection Dilemma: A Discussion on Draft Amendments of China’s Copyright Law. In: Guo, Y. (eds) Research on Selected China's Legal Issues of E-Business. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44542-6_23
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