This is NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Liu Yan in Beijing. Here is the news.
China's National Copyright Administration has issued a regulation against news-story copyright infringement. The administration has urged Internet media to acquire authorization and pay before posting reports produced by print media.
Under the regulation, any form of republishing of news stories containing the original producers' creative work on the Internet is illegal unless the users obtain the permit from the original copyright holders.
Factual news without creative efforts from original producers is not included in the protection against online piracy.
The original producer's name and affiliated media organization should be clearly displayed on reposted news. Re-posters should avoid misinterpretation of the headlines and content of the original stories if modifying them.
The regulation was drafted based on China's Copyright Law. Any violation against it will be subject to administrative penalties from the National Copyright Administration, and fines will be imposed as well.
The National Copyright Administration urged print and digital media to establish content-sharing agreements while specifying detailed procedures for legally reposting published news stories.
The regulation provides a timely guideline for news production and republishing against the backdrop of the increasing use of new media, including Internet portals, social media and mobile news applications.
