Judicial protection promotes innovation in the film industry

2023-11-07

In order to further stimulate the innovation and creativity of the film industry, the Supreme People's Court recently issued the "Judicial Proposal on Strengthening Intellectual Property Protection Services to Promote the High Quality Development of the Film Industry", proposing to strengthen copyright awareness, strengthen the protection of film copyrights and copyright-related rights, and other suggestions. At the same time, it issued relevant typical cases. Movies are a popular form of cultural entertainment among the people. In recent years, with the rapid development of the film industry and the widespread popularity and technological progress of the Internet, film works have frequently encountered infringement situations such as piracy and plagiarism, resulting in an increasing number of related disputes. According to data from the Supreme Court, in the past five years, the average annual growth rate of cases involving film works has been 7.46%, which is 4.73 percentage points higher than that of ordinary civil cases during the same period. Infringement not only damages the economic interests of film producers, reduces the creative enthusiasm of film practitioners, but also undermines the healthy development of the film industry. Protecting the legitimate rights and interests of film copyright owners is related to the innovative and creative vitality and high-quality development of the film industry, as well as to the needs of the people for a better life and spiritual and cultural needs. Judiciary is an important part of film intellectual property protection. For judicial authorities, strengthening the protection of film intellectual property rights is not only about properly resolving relevant disputes in accordance with the law, but also about fully exerting its functional role and actively integrating into industry governance. This time, the Supreme Court issued a judicial recommendation, which is a vivid manifestation of adhering to active justice. These suggestions are very relevant and targeted "remedies" proposed by the judicial authorities in response to the characteristics and causes of current film intellectual property disputes. They can actively promote the improvement of industry management, eliminate hidden dangers, improve work, regulate behavior, and also enhance the legal awareness of the entire industry. Suggestions such as standardizing the scope and order of signatures, and effectively implementing technical protection measures for film copyright can help reduce conflicts, disputes, and infringement from the source. At the same time, by publicly disclosing typical cases in different forms of expression, such as clarifying that stealing and disseminating cinema films is an infringement, using others' film works for re creation shall not tarnish the original character image, and film materials belong to trade secrets, etc., it will further enhance the awareness of intellectual property protection in the entire society. The film industry is an important component of the cultural industry, and protecting film intellectual property rights is to protect cultural innovation. This requires relevant departments, including judicial authorities, to fulfill their duties and responsibilities, continuously strengthen policy legislation and law enforcement judicial efforts, and severely crack down on related illegal activities; Industry organizations also need to actively play a unique role in guiding members to strengthen the spirit of the rule of law, strengthen fair competition, strengthen original demonstration, effectively implement technical protection measures for film copyright, encourage the creation of more excellent works, continuously enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the people, and jointly help build a strong cultural and intellectual property country. (New News Agency)

Edit:Ying Ying    Responsible editor:Shen Chen

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