the 33rd Issue: Baidu, Sogou win court case against music groups-China Intellectual Property Magazine

·Baidu, Sogou win court case against music groups

The mass-used Chinese search engine Baidu has been cleared by court of copyright infringement in a dispute with the music industry, the IFPI trade body for the music sector said Tuesday. A Beijing court ruled that the search engine had not broken rules by providing a link to music products.More

·Peking Opera hopes to resonate with UNESCO
Peking Opera is "very likely" to be included on the World Intangible Cultural Heritage list this year, the president of the Peking Opera Troupe told METRO Tuesday. Wang Yuzhen, who is also a member of the ongoing third session of 11th Beijing municipal committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Committee, said its inclusion could be completed in the second half of the year.More

·Time-honored brand: platform of cultural and economic heritage

Many household words would immediately jump into people's minds when they were asked to name some of the time-honored brands in Hangzhou, for example, Hu Qing Yu Tang drugstore, Wang Xing Ji fans, Lou Wai Lou restaurants, Zhi Wei Guan restaurants, Zhang Xiao Quan scissors and Du Jin Sheng brocades.More

·Karaoke royalties hit 170 million yuan in 3 years
According to the second member conference of the China Audio-Video Copyright Association held January 25, karaoke royalties, resulting from the protection of an important part of intellectual property rights (IPR) since 2007, have harvested a total of 170 million yuan of royalties during the 3 years.More

·China's patent applications on sharp rise
·Beijing gains achievements on identification work of innovative products

·SIPO publicizes "Patent Examination Direction"
·Patent applications in Qinghai keep growing in 2009
·Govt to issue 'innovation vouchers' to boost R

·Zhejiang Branded Product Fair Unveiled in Macao
·EU-China training on administrative patent enforcement

·EU-China workshop on protection of folklore

China IP Articles

·The CAVCA Staggering Forward in Dispute Issue 34 By Kevin Nie, China IP,[Copyright]
Ever since the foundation of the CAVCA, over several years, it has only done one thing, but with great difficulty. That is charging and collecting copyright royalties from “karaoke” operators in a complicated and changing environment. The full name of the CAVCA is “China Audio-Video Copyright Association,” and its preparation for establishment began in 2001.More

·MCSC Faces up to the Media Storm Issue 34 By Kevin Nie, China IP,[Patent]
The Music Copyright Society of China (MCSC), established in 1992, was the first collective copyright management organization in China. In the past 17 years it has never stopped protecting the rights of the copyright owners, but not without questions. This year, once again, the public attention has been attracted to the MCSC on account of the charges for karaoke music and background music.More