The "Opinions" sets out to push the 3rd revision on "Copyright Law", seeking to promote the orderly development of musical industry, especially digital music, through copyright protection. Measures include: tough punishment for copyright infringing activities such as spreading music without permission; support copyright cooperation between right owners and users, promote mutual authorization and extensive spread, encourage related organizations explore business models in the context of network communication, push the establishment of a copyright-ordered web music environment and ecosystem; improve the rewarding system for reporting and cracking down for anti-pirate reporting purposes, impose tougher sanction against infringing activities including illegal spread, producing and publishing of works by passing off as the original publisher; and strengthen market supervision in banning musical works with harmful content.
The "Opinions" aims to regulate the entire musical chain and bring forth a number of classical works, innovative companies and talents of major influence during the period of China's 13th Five Year Plan, and hopes to build the industry into a 300 billion business by the end of this period.
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