China has a pretty good system for takedowns of copyright
subject matter stored or posted online without the approval of the
copyright owner. Our China lawyers are have helped motion picture
producers, motion picture distributors, gaming companies and other
copyright owners invoke this process and the results are generally
good when the copyright owner is well prepared.
This is the first in a series of posts looking at online
takedowns. In this post we provide a general summary of the
regulations that establish the takedown procedures for copyright
subject matter.
The copyright takedown regulations protect the right of
"communication through an information network." This
right is one of several comprising the copyright in audiovisual
recordings and sound recordings under Chinese copyright law.
References below to "recordings" include both sound
recordings and audiovisual recordings.
