Copyright registrations soar

The National Copyright Administration announced on Jan 17 that the total number of copyright registrations in China last year surpassed 800,000. More than 680,000 were copyrights on works of art, an increase of 49 percent over 2011. More than half of the registrations were made in Beijing. Copyrights filed for proprietary software reached nearly 140,000, an increase of 27 percent, with about 2,000 of the software designs related to cloud computing technologies.