China Releases 2020 Report On Digital Copyright Protection

According to the annual report of the National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC), the NCAC registered a total of 5,039,543 works whose authors filed claims to copyright in 2020, an increase of 20.37% from the previous year. The "Sword Net Action", an annual campaign aimed at cracking down on online piracy and copyright infringement, was carried out last June, when 3,239,400 links to pirated content were removed and 2,884 infringing websites and apps were shut down.

In the report, copyright registration, the certifying of model cities and companies of copyright protection, and the convergence of the country's three big networks (the Internet, telecoms networks, and TV broadcasting networks) are listed as three major constituents of the infrastructure of digital copyright protection. Blockchain and DRM (digital rights management) are indicated to have become part of the toolkit for copyright owners and copyright law enforcement entities. Having been widely