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COURT FINDS CHINESE PIRATE GUILTY, BUT METES OUT SMALL FINE Wednesday, December 20 2006 The MPAA has won what many might consider a pyrrhic victory over a major seller of counterfeit DVDs in China. The Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court ruled on Tuesday that the Yu Hao Qing DVD store and its parent, Beijing Century Hai Hong Trading Co., violated copyright regulations. But the penalty -- the defendants were ordered to compensate the U.S. studios $20,000 -- was regarded as barely a slap on the wrist. Besides such (more) CHINA'S CLOSED-DOOR POLICY ON MOVIES SPURS PIRACY, SAYS MPAA EXEC Thursday, December 7 2006 China's policy of restricting the number of foreign films that can be shown on the mainland is largely to blame for rampant piracy in the country, MPAA Senior V.P Michael Ellis has told the Foreign Correspondents Club of China. He said that by limiting the number to 20, Beijing encourages pirates to provide the films to consumers that cannot otherwise be viewed theatrically. "There needs to be a recognition that there's not going to be (more) |
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MPAA chief Dan Glickman has accused China of imposing tight restrictions on the distribution of theatrical films and legal DVDs while at the same time failing to crack down on the distribution of counterfeit product. Speaking at a Congressional hearing in Washington, Glickman outlined the bootlegging process. "Someone can illegally camcord a movie in Montreal, send the file by way of the Internet to someone in Guangzhou, who then dubs and subtitles the dialogue, and then illegally presses thousands of DVDs." The counterfeit DVDs, he said, are then distributed all over the world -- including the U.S. "A pirated disc made in China can, in a day or two, be on the streets of Los Angeles," he said. Glickman implied that China had made grandiose promises to crack down on piracy in order to gain administration into the World Trade Organization five years ago but has continued to drag its feet on the issue ever since.
