China Registers Record-High Applications for Software Copyright Protection
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, Feb.
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China, computers and algorithms combine in a perfect storm.
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By Kyodo News International, Tokyo  Feb. 8--GENEVA -- The number of international patent applications reached  a record 145,300 in 2006, with Japan keeping second place for a fourth year in  a row, the World Intellectual Property Organization said Wednesday.
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(InfoWorld) - The Chinese government took steps during 2006 toÂ increase its controlÂ and monitoring of Internet access by the country's growing Internet population, the U.S. Department of State said in a human-rights report released on Tuesday. "While the government continued to encourage expanded use of the Internet, it also took steps to monitor its use, control content, restrict information, and punished those who violated regulations," the annual report said. Among the steps implemented by the government are stricter requirements for Web-site registration, greater official control over content, and a wider definition of what constitutes illegal activity online, it said. The Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are published annually by the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. ChinaÂ has nearly 140 million Internet users, according to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), which tracks Internet usage in the country. The large number of Internet users has not eroded the government's ability to control access to content it deems undesirable, said the State Department, citing reports that the Chinese government employes "tens of thousands of persons" to monitor the Internet. "The authorities reportedly began to employ more sophisticated technology enabling the selective blocking of specific content rather than entire Web sites. Such technology was also used to block e-mails containing sensitive content," the report said. The Chinese government has alsoÂ enlisted the help of domestic and multinational companiesÂ to restrict access to information on the Internet. "Chinese search engines such as Baidu.com and the China-based search engines of Yahoo, MSN, and Google filtered search results, including those relating to the Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, and human rights," it said.
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It is a licensed file-sharing service with almost an unlimited selection of tracks that will give record labels a degree of control over file-sharing.
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Industry groups for producers of copyrighted material, including the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and the Motion Picture Association (MPA), Friday signed an agreement with the National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC) for protection against Internet piracy in China.
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China promised on Tuesday to get tougher on copyright and patent violations, a long-awaited move that may ease U.S. concerns over rampant piracy believed to cost foreign businesses billions of dollars every year.
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Makers of computer software report that piracy rates, while still high, declined slightly in both China and Russia last year, but that global losses from the use of illegal computer software rose to &#36;34 billion.
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China has shut down more than 100 websites for copyright violations since a new regulation came into effect in July, state media have said.
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25 arrested Pirated Microsoft software, estimated by the firm to be worth more than $2bn, has been seized by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Chinese police following a long-running joint operation which began in 2005.â¦
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The industry filed copyright infringement lawsuits against 761 computer users in the latest round of litigation in the record companies&#39; effort to stamp out unauthorized trading of music online.
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BEIJING The Chinese government said on Monday that it seized two million fake compact discs in the first half of 2004, acting on US pressure to end counterfeiting of software and movies.
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(InfoWorld) - China and Russia are the two worst foreign infringers of U.S. software and music copyrights and they should remain on the U.S. government's priority watch list, a group representing the software, music, books, and movie industries said Monday. The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) put out the figures as part of its recommendations to the U.S. Trade Representative. It asked government officials to keep both countries on its Priority Watch List when it meets to discuss the annual Special 301 review of copyright piracy. The list is compiled each year, and nations placed on the list are watched closely for signs of improvement. Failure to take action can result in countries losing certain duty-free trade privileges. The IIPA said the worst 60 foreign music and software pirating nations cost industry members $15.25 billion last year, compared to $15.83 billion in year earlier. The figure could be as much as $35 billion if the U.S. and the rest of the world are included, IIPA estimated. The figures are based on statistics supplied by member associations. China topped all rivals on the IIPA most-wanted list by pumping out $2.21 billion worth of pirated goods last year, mainly business software, according to IIPA figures. Russia ran a close second at $2.18 billion, it said. China's 2006 figure marks a slight improvement over the previous year, when the IIPA estimated its piracy at $2.37 billion, but Russia took a sharp turn for the worse. In 2005,Â Russian copyright piracyÂ only cost IIAP members $1.76 billion, the group said. Music, software and movie trade groups view the Special 301 process as the best means available for them to encourage greater copyright protection globally, IIAP said. The group recommended that 16 countries, including Canada, China, Mexico, and Russia, be placed on the Priority Watch List, putting them up for the highest degree of scrutiny. Canada and Mexico, the U.S.'s border neighbors, are two of its biggest trading partners. Italy escaped an IIPA recommendation for the priority list despite hosting the third worst copyright infringement problem, by value, on the group's list. Italy pirated $1.43 billion worth of U.S. software and songs last year, down slightly from $1.62 billion the year before, according to the IIPA. The group said its decision to recommend a country for the top list is based on the total amount and on efforts to improve. IIPA recommended that Italy be placed on the Special 301 Watch List, along with 27 other countries or territories. The IIPA is comprised of seven business associations, including the Business Software Alliance (BSA), Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). In all, the associations represent over 1,900 U.S. companies.
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More than $500 million worth of  pirated software, including counterfeit Microsoft and Symantec  products, has been seized in a long-running joint probe by  Chinese police and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation,  officials from both countries said on Tuesday.
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LOS ANGELES -- The recording industry filed copyright infringement lawsuits against 761 computer users in the latest round of litigation in the record companies&#39; effort to stamp out unauthorized trading of music online.
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Free applications can search through more than 200 different types of files.
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Microsoft today expanded its end user intellectual property protection policy to cover customers using a wider range of its software, including Windows Server System, SQL Server and Exchange Server, Microsoft Office System and the Windows client software.