For the digital content creation industry to develop sustainably, copyright issues must be thoroughly resolved and violations cannot be allowed to spread.
Electronic publishing is one of the areas where copyright and related rights are violated.
Widespread violations
The development of digital technology has brought about breakthrough creative tools, opening up a new environment for preserving, distributing, exploiting and using works, performances, sound recordings, video recordings and broadcasts. However, the digital environment also poses many challenges in protecting the rights of subjects and the activities of management agencies, enforcement of copyright and related rights...
Mr. Hoang Long Huy - Head of Cultural Industry Management Department, Copyright Department (Ministry of Culture - Sports and Tourism) said that with the development of science, technology and engineering, the cultural industry is also facing great challenges in protecting copyright of products, when copying activities are becoming easier and the self-protection of rights of subjects faces many challenges.
Recently, with the strong development of social networks such as Facebook and TikTok, many videos and short films have appeared, and film commentary on these platforms has no limits. It is worth mentioning that these short videos attract a lot of views. These videos, in the name of commentary, have revealed the main content of the film. This behavior has caused the film production unit a lot of damage. In addition, copyright infringement acts are also very diverse, from infringement of author's rights such as the right to copy, the right to communicate and distribute works to personal rights such as the right to publish works, the right to protect the integrity of works, etc.
Or for football matches, a series of websites blatantly violate copyrights to broadcast football matches live on the Internet. Just type in the keyword "live football" in a search engine, tens of millions of results with thousands of website addresses will appear. Among them, at many addresses people can directly watch major football matches such as the Premier League, Champions League... This has caused businesses operating in this field to suffer heavy losses. Some businesses have spent millions of USD to buy the copyright to broadcast football matches or movies in Vietnam.
In the field of publishing, infringement of copyright and related rights still occurs. This includes publishing and distributing books, especially e-books on the Internet. The infringement of copyright and related rights has affected the creative and investment environment, especially the development of cultural industries.
The rampant copyright infringement in Vietnam is eroding the resources of domestic content producers. The cause stems from the technology infrastructure itself that cannot apply technological solutions. In addition, legal obstacles also make many individuals and organizations confused, they are not really interested in technological solutions.
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Copyright and related rights are an important part of the Intellectual Property Law. The protection of copyright and related rights plays an important role in economic, cultural and social development, and is also one of the conditions for integration into the international economic and trade system.
Mr. Tran Hoang - Director of the Copyright Department affirmed that doing a good job in copyright protection is an important factor in building a healthy and competitive cultural industry. It contributes more and more to GDP, creates more jobs, and increases the country's export turnover.
According to Mr. Hoang Dinh Chung - Director of the Digital Copyright Center (Vietnam Digital Communications Association), technology is one of the tools that plays an important role in copyright protection on digital platforms, so it is necessary to improve capacity, automatically censor content, support copyright law, detect and report copyright violations. Copyright protection must be considered as property protection.
Lawyer Nguyen Anh Tu - LLA Legal LLC (Hanoi Bar Association) said that to prevent this problem, it is necessary to complete the copyright registration information portal. Gradually deploy research and development of blockchain technology; integrate digital copyright management, research and development of copyright fee collection technologies using blockchain... In addition, it is necessary to amend and supplement the legal system to be more complete and specific, especially the issue of copyright protection in the digital environment and copyright protection using technological solutions.
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