Asia-Pacific Regional Forum on Impact of WCT, WPPTThe Asia Pacific Regional Forum on the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty (WCT) and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT), and their impact on copyright industries is scheduled to open March 27 in Guangzhou.The three-day forum is sponsored by the China National Copyright Administration (CNCA) and the WIPO, announced a senior CNCA official Monday. Along with the fast expansion of high technologies featuring information and digital technologies and the wide application of e-commerce, creative works of various kinds have been spread to an unprecedented wide scope via online networks, creating new challenges for both creators and the people who spread the works. Issues such as how to obtain authorized rights from creators for using literary works, pictures, music and video products online, what kind of copyright protection measures should be drafted so as to ensure a sustainable and healthy development of online information industries are the important factors for holding a large international conference event, said the official. As a WIPO member, China has not yet entered the above mentioned two treaties. But it has been drafting legislation to protect copyrights in the digital and online environment. The official said, more than 100 eminent copyright specialists from WIPO, the European Union, the United States, Japan, Malaysia and China, as, well copyright representatives from 20 Asian-Pacific countries and regions will attend the forum. During the forum, participants will discuss such issues as how WCT and WPPT will provide businesses with a safe environment,international privacy laws, in WCT and WPPT, and the role of copyrights and neighboring rights in information society. |
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