National Copyright Administration Rewards the Prominents in Anti-piracy Activities

Recently, National Copyright Administration has released Decisions on Rewarding Prominent Units and Individuals in 08' Anti-piracy Activities, to honor 173 units and 166 individuals, such as anti-piracy working group for the Olympics (unit) and Ma Yue (individual). It is learnt that this is the second time for the National Copyright Administration to invest huge amounts in rewarding units and individuals with contributions to the anti-piracy work since last year.

In order to carry through the strategic plan of "protecting IP and fighting against piracy" by Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council, State Department approves the establishment of the rewards for anti-piracy activities in accordance with the "Provisional Measures on Rewarding Piracy Informants and Enforcement". Last year, the National Copyright Administration started up such activity and rewarded 120 units and 94 individuals with RMB 3,295,000 during 2006-07's anti-piracy work. The amounts of units and individuals rewarded and the reward itself increase a lot this year. Besides, there is also Grand Prize to reward the outstanding anti-piracy working group for the Olympics in protecting intellectual property rights of Beijing Olympics.

(Source：IPR in China)

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