Experts Brainstorm on Digital Rights Protection in Beijing

More than 100 business people, government officials, industry experts and academics from China and the UK gathered in Beijing to probe ways to better protect digital property rights and stem online piracy¹.

CRI's Wujia reports.

 
Protecting digital rights has become a serious issue now that there is a new generation of consumers who have been brought up downloading information from the internet and have no knowledge of the past era where people went to record shops to buy audio recordings².

Industry experts from China and the United Kingdom discussed and debated the topic of digital rights at the fourth UK-China Internet Roundtable today in Beijing.
 
For some, the stance of the government, as expressed through legislation, has been pivotal in.

Justin Bass³ is the manager of Britain's leading 3G service provider "3".

"One of the things we have been doing is working with the government on a piece of legislation it has enacted⁵ called the Digital Economy Act. It's been quite slow in implementing⁶ this legislation because of arguments as to whether the legislation itself was legal. But the government's stance is this: Whatever internet service provider you are, mobile or fixed⁷ line, we want to reduce unlawful file sharing in the U.K. We want to encourage the creative industries, and we support that."

Technology has always been at the core of the internet age.

Some content providers are trying to gain the upper hand in fighting piracy by accessing leading technologies.

Pierre Cheung is BBC Worldwide's China manager.

"We work closely with our partners. Every time we have a work relationship with our partners, we will have a questionnaire about their backbone⁸ delivery system and what sort of digital rights management software they are using. Then we need to engage our clients about how they show the videos, how they protect the videos. Fortunately, a lot of video portals these days have very sophisticated ways of protecting intellectual property rights. They can do geo-targeting; they can limit the video to only being seen in China, or vice⁴ versa. We 100-percent rely on the partners."

Cheung says the once rampant⁹ phenomenon of digital rights infringement¹⁰ in China has fundamentally come under control during the past three years.

Wang Chen is Director of the State Internet Information Office, a department set up in May and tasked with investigating and punishing websites that violate laws and regulations.

"The Chinese government regards protecting intellectual property on the internet as an important means to ensure the healthy development of the internet. It attaches great importance to cooperating with its British counterpart in protecting digital intellectual property rights. In the past 10 months, the Chinese government fined or ordered the shutdown of more than 150 websites for offering unlawful video clips of the popular English Premier¹¹ League."

As progress is being made here for digital rights holders¹², perhaps the biggest achievement this year was Baidu's agreement with music studios in July.

The country's largest internet search engine pledged to distribute only licensed¹³ music through its MP3 search service in the future.

For CRI, I am Wujia.

1 piracy   

n.海盗行为，剽窃，著作权侵害

参考例句：

• The government has already adopted effective measures against piracy.政府已采取有效措施惩治盗版行为。
• They made the place a notorious centre of piracy.他们把这地方变成了臭名昭著的海盗中心。

2 recordings   

n.记录( recording的名词复数 )；录音；录像；唱片

参考例句：

• a boxed set of original recordings 一套盒装原声录音带
• old jazz recordings reissued on CD 以激光唱片重新发行的老爵士乐

3 bass   

n.男低音(歌手)；低音乐器；低音大提琴

参考例句：

• He answered my question in a surprisingly deep bass.他用一种低得出奇的声音回答我的问题。
• The bass was to give a concert in the park.那位男低音歌唱家将在公园中举行音乐会。

4 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

5 enacted   

制定（法律），通过（法案）( enact的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• legislation enacted by parliament 由议会通过的法律
• Outside in the little lobby another scene was begin enacted. 外面的小休息室里又是另一番景象。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

6 implementing   

v.实现( implement的现在分词 )；执行；贯彻；使生效

参考例句：

• -- Implementing a comprehensive drug control strategy. ――实行综合治理的禁毒战略。 来自汉英非文学 - 白皮书
• He was in no hurry about implementing his unshakable principle. 他并不急于实行他那不可动摇的原则。 来自辞典例句

7 fixed   

adj.固定的，不变的，准备好的；(计算机)固定的

参考例句：

• Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
• Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。

8 backbone   

n.脊骨，脊柱，骨干；刚毅，骨气

参考例句：

• The Chinese people have backbone.中国人民有骨气。
• The backbone is an articulate structure.脊椎骨是一种关节相连的结构。

9 rampant   

adj.(植物)蔓生的；狂暴的，无约束的

参考例句：

• Sickness was rampant in the area.该地区疾病蔓延。
• You cannot allow children to rampant through the museum.你不能任由小孩子在博物馆里乱跑。

10 infringement   

n.违反；侵权

参考例句：

• Infringement of this regulation would automatically rule you out of the championship.违背这一规则会被自动取消参加锦标赛的资格。
• The committee ruled that the US ban constituted an infringement of free trade.委员会裁定美国的禁令对自由贸易构成了侵犯

11 premier   

adj.首要的；n.总理，首相

参考例句：

• The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
• He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。

12 holders   

支持物( holder的名词复数 )； 持有者； （支票等）持有人； 支托（或握持）…之物

参考例句：

• Slaves were mercilessly ground down by slave holders. 奴隶受奴隶主的残酷压迫。
• It is recognition of compassion's part that leads the up-holders of capital punishment to accuse the abolitionists of sentimentality in being more sorry for the murderer than for his victim. 正是对怜悯的作用有了认识，才使得死刑的提倡者指控主张废除死刑的人感情用事，同情谋杀犯胜过同情受害者。

13 licensed   

adj.得到许可的v.许可，颁发执照(license的过去式和过去分词)

参考例句：

• The new drug has not yet been licensed in the US. 这种新药尚未在美国获得许可。
• Is that gun licensed? 那支枪有持枪执照吗？