Karaoke rights then torrents Lei Shi and investigate shihan

Recently, they right in domestic karaoke and network music rights in full swing, the karaoke establishments provide VOD system of domestic manufacturers in the top ten VOD Redstone and shihan of the two companies, was arrested for illegal copying, piracy is the storehouse of Yunnan province, respectively, the Copyright Office of severely punished. In May this year, the Copyright Office in accordance with the accepted in Yunnan province of China Music Copyright Association and other rightholders on the Beijing Lei Shi century technology co., Ltd. Kunming Office and Beijing Office Yunnan Shihan technology co., Ltd. Complaint book, Beijing Lei Shi century technology co., Ltd. Kunming Office and Beijing Shihan technology co., Ltd. Yunnan Office unauthorized and non-payment of copyright royalty, for profit production and sales of karaoke song VOD system without considerable illegally copied, sales of the copyright owner authorizes the complainant managed karaoke music sings to the musical works, including "love me or not, etc, for a total of 1 million for the first, its behavior is not only a serious infringement of the legitimate interests of the copyright owner, and serious damage to public interests, the Copyright Office shall be ordered in Yunnan province requested by the complainants to stop the infringing act, confiscate the illegal gains of the complainant, the forfeit, destruction of infringing copies and imposing fines, confiscating is mainly used for making infringing copies of the materials, tools, devices complainee to order the complainant compensation for economic losses. 20 June, the Copyright Office under investigation in Yunnan province, according to the law on the facts that two VOD vendor demoed enforcement, detained and implement piracy crime-related tools and information. According to industry, currently operating in karaoke, more than 80% of the KTV operators use VOD system to provide consumers with sings to the service, songs the music television production for replication is VOD system vendor to implement the operation behavior of core premise and important content. According to the survey, VOD system suppliers in a large number of replication of these is protected by copyright law protected music television production is almost never receive the relevant copyright owner in the permissions and licensing. At present, around 17 million KTV song VOD system are stored in the storehouse of mass songs mostly by VOD system provider. To each use of pirated songs KTV quantity from 2.5 million first-6 million for the first not-to-peer computing, KTV of pirated music shops use the total stock of approximately 43 billion for the first, infringement of scale shocking. According to initial estimates that every year right holders in the copyright in this industry for more than 20 billion of losses. The legal profession stated that VOD system, without permission from the rights person permitting, for profit, to commercial scale blatantly copied numerous works of right holders and sales behavior, have constituted the penal provisions of article 217 of the crime of infringement of copyright, shall bear criminal responsibility. It is understood that, as a stopgap, driving the domestic karaoke legalization process, the Association of Chinese music copyright owners from the end of last year it launched defenders on VOD vendors. Dec. 8th, 2007, also in Kunming, Yunnan, Crown with technology co., Ltd legal representative pengdan arrested for mass copy infringement musical and released music video works are Yunnan Provincial Public Security Department, criminal detention, was the legal profession as karaoke's criminal case first. Since then, the Changsha Copyright Office in March of this year, according to the alleged infringement of Furong district, Changsha city, as far as digital business and Changsha-l electronic technology co., Ltd. opened a administrative fines, two VOD dealer sentenced to fines, the confiscation of the infringing tools, to put an immediate end to the infringement of severe punishment. VOD industry pervasiveness of the phenomenon of mass piracy has aroused national copyright authorities and courts, and other interested parties. The Copyright Office of Yunnan province and Redstone and shihan two companies in the domestic top ten VOD top manufacturers, including Thunder stone at home 10 more cities to establish a branch, agency network throughout more than 30 provinces and cities. Shihan in more than 20 national has branches and offices, with more than 2000 KTV rooms than user 40000. The two companies for the management of mass songs have not been right holders of license, has been arrested for constitutes a criminal offence.