21.01.2009
Starting From April, Chinese Copyrights Can Be Registered In Japan
A new institution jointly established by the Copyright Protection Center of China (a Chinese government institution) and several Japanese companies in Tokyo will start accepting copyright registrations for China from Japanese applicants as soon as April. Making use of the possibility to register a copyrighted work helps authors to prove their authorship and to take legal actions against infringements.
The Copyright Protection Center will dispatch several Chinese lawyers to the newly established institution whose job it will be to examine and record works to ehance their protection on the Chineses market.
The institution will further handle lawsuits and mediation requests related to alleged copyright violations in China. In the future, the center will also handle the registration of trademark rights and design rights.
Currently, foreign applicants can officially register copyrighted works only in Beijing. It takes about a month on average to complete all the procedures. By using the new institution in Japan, Japanese applicants should be able to finish the whole process within two weeks.
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China, copyrights, Japan, Marken, trademarks
