In recent years, with the improvement of copyright protection awareness in the whole society, film copyright protection has also attracted more and more attention. Since the beginning of this year, the National Copyright Administration, in conjunction with the National Film Admin

Various regions have promptly investigated and dealt with infringement and piracy such as pirated recordings of theater movies in key schedules such as the Spring Festival and National Day schedules.

During the National Day period in 2024, Shanxi, Guangdong and other places based on monitoring clues, in response to the local cases of stolen National Day movie theaters " Volunteer Army: Battle of Life and Death ", "749 Bureau " and " Road to Fire ", The Copyright Administration Bureau of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee promptly transferred clues and deployed the Copyright Bureaus of Shanxi Province and Guangdong Province to investigate and handle the case. At present, the suspect has been initially identified and the case is under investigation.

This spring, the public security organs of Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province detected seven consecutive cases of stealing and recording Spring Festival movie theaters, investigated and dealt with 500,000 infringing film and television works such as "Hot and Spicy", " Flying Life 2", " Article 20" Yu Department arrested 13 suspects, involving more than 6 million yuan.

According to statistics, during the Spring Festival alone, relevant Internet platforms dealt with 64,500 infringing and stolen links related to Spring Festival theatrical movies, and rights holders complained about 64,500 infringing and stolen links, and actively filtered, intercepted and deleted 1,258,600 infringing and stolen links, and banned and restricted broadcasts of repeated infringements. There are 2,075 accounts, which effectively prevents the spread of infringing content.

In fact, since 2019, the National Copyright Administration, together with the National Film Administration, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and other relevant departments, has deployed and carried out copyright protection for theater movies for 6 consecutive years. Special operations. Film copyright infringers investigated during the operation were sentenced to administrative detention or even criminal penalties.

During the 2019 Spring Festival, the Yangzhou Public Security Bureau in Jiangsu Province captured 59 suspects including Ma Mouyu using high-definition technology to copy many Spring Festival pirated films such as " The Wandering Earth " and " Speeding Life ". The amount involved was more than 50 million yuan. Ma Mouyu and others were sentenced to six to four years in prison and fined, and their illegal gains were recovered and turned over to the state treasury.

Guo Yanhu, Distinguished Lecturer of Legal Education at Beijing Film Academy : This kind of infringement disrupts the order of the film market and damages the public interests of society. If the infringer is for profit, the amount of illegal gains from infringing the copyright of others is relatively large or there are other If the circumstances are serious, it constitutes a crime of copyright infringement and shall be punished by criminal law in accordance with the law.

During the 2021 Spring Festival, Chen Moumou from Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province purchased tickets and entered two different theaters to watch movies. He secretly recorded two popular Spring Festival movies, " Assassination of Novelist " and "The Crowd", and sent them via network disk to netizens, causing the stolen videos to be widely disseminated on the Internet, causing huge losses to the film producers. Although there was no illegal profit-making in this case, the relevant departments finally imposed a maximum fine of 250,000 yuan on the infringer.

Guo Yanhu, Distinguished Lecturer of Legal Education at Beijing Film Academy:It should be pointed out in particular that For such infringements that disrupt the order of the film market and harm social and public interests, the relevant competent authorities will punish them, regardless of whether they are profit-making. premise. Even if he makes no profit or the amount of profit cannot be determined, the competent authorities can still impose an administrative penalty of up to 250,000 yuan.

Pirated film and television resources are widely disseminated on the Internet, which not only harms the interests of genuine film producers and theaters, but also has a particularly bad impact on audiences, especially minors.

Industry insiders said that although many illegal websites appear to be free to watch movies, they are actually making profits through "overseas advertising" and other methods.

Zhu Wei, deputy director of the Communication Law Research Center of China University of Political Science and Law: In fact, during the viewing process of , its window advertisements and pop-up advertisements, including whether it allows you to register as a member, are indirect and disguised through the way you watch the movie. After charging you relevant fees, the fees may actually be quite low, so in this case it can also be determined that it has obtained unfair benefits through advertising and other related methods.

In addition, some illegal websites also make profits by diverting traffic to gambling and pornographic websites.

Wang, general manager of the legal compliance department of a certain video platform Ji : The common feature of these websites is that they all have their servers overseas, and they have not made any corresponding filings in China. Such websites are actually harmful to young people. The harm is also great. In addition to providing pirated resources, these websites often connect to overseas pornographic websites and gambling websites, providing a lot of harmful information.

The spread of pirated film and television resources undermines the healthy development of the industry and causes bad social impact. With the development of science and technology, the application of digital watermarking, anti-theft recording technology and other technical means has provided strong support for relevant departments to promptly and effectively curb the spread of pirated film and television resources.

At the China Film Research Institute, staff demonstrated digital watermarking technology to reporters.

Director of China Film Research Institute and Central Propaganda Film Technical Quality Inspection Institute Gong Bo: movie digital watermark is used to embed the theater’s projection information into the movie content in real time through technical means during the playback of each movie without affecting the movie picture and sound reproduction quality, so that once When stolen photos occur and pirated samples are formed, we can extract the information of the screening theater through technical means, so that we can accurately locate the theater where the stolen photos occurred and the time of the stolen photos. The application of

digital watermark technology provides long-term technical support for copyright administrative law enforcement departments, film authorities, and public security agencies at all levels to investigate and handle cases of theft of theater movies.

Gong Bo, Director of China Film Research Institute and Zhongxuan Film Technical Quality Inspection Institute: Our Film Research Institute has a professional team that will monitor pirated samples of online theater movies 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The producer has also established a green channel through the China Copyright Monitoring Center to provide a green channel for the submission of pirated samples.

At the same time, for genuine movies that have been screened online on regular video platforms, relevant platforms have also taken technical protection measures to prevent their film and television resources from being stolen and transferred to illegal websites.

In recent years, the public’s awareness of the protection of film and television copyrights has been continuously strengthened, but as an ordinary viewer, what behaviors are considered fair use and sharing of film and television works? What behaviors infringe film and television copyrights? How to avoid infringement in daily online social activities?

What situations constitute fair use of film and television works?

Article 24 of the Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China clearly stipulates the scope of fair use. This includes using other people’s published works for personal study, research or appreciation; appropriately quoting other people’s published works in the work to introduce and comment on a certain work or explaining a certain issue; and reporting news in newspapers, journals, It is inevitable that published works will be reproduced or quoted in media such as radio stations and television stations.

In these circumstances, the work may be used without the permission of the copyright owner and without payment of remuneration to the copyright owner, but the name of the author and the title of the work shall be specified, and the normal use of the work shall not be affected, nor shall the legal rights of the copyright owner be reasonably damaged. rights and interests.

Zhu Wei, deputy director of the Communication Law Research Center of China University of Political Science and Law: An ordinary movie fan goes to the cinema to watch a movie. At this time, he takes a photo or two photos and sends them to Moments. He comments on some movies. This kind of The situation fell within the scope of fair use in the Copyright Law, because he was trying to introduce or evaluate a certain work, and he needed to quote it during the evaluation process. He said he had seen it.

What behaviors constitute infringement of the copyright of film and television works?

Zhu Wei, deputy director of the Communication Law Research Center of China University of Political Science and Law: You have been recording through video for a long time. This is stipulated by including the Film Promotion Law. This is a typical infringement and illegal act, so the theater staff will also be stopped promptly.

In addition, unauthorized secondary creation of film and television works or AI face-changing may also be an infringement.