State Council Revises Copyright Rules

The State Council issued the Decision on Modifying and Amending Some Administrative Regulations. The Implementing Regulations of Copyright Law are one of the regulations gone through several changes.

The amendments relate to of Rule 22, Rule 29 and Rule 30. The state of being out of print relating to a work mentioned in Rule 32 (former is Rule 31) of the Law shall be established. To object to the reprinting or extracting of his work by virtue of the second paragraph of Rule 33 (formerly  Rule 32) of the Law, the copyright owner is required to make a statement to that effect at the same time when the work is first published in a newspaper or a periodical. In parallel, the Collective Management of Copyright Regulations and Regulations on the Protection of Computer Software are also amended.