"Don't look at this movie so popular now, it's completely plagiarism of my published work!"
The copyright of the well-known author's new book has just been sold for less than a month, and the manuscript has not yet been completed, and there is already a work of the same name on the market...... On the afternoon of April 22, as one of the series of activities of the second national reading season of the China Writers Association of "Scholarly China, Joyful Reading Literature", the new book launch of the long-form reportage "The Umbrella of Creation - A Chronicle of Chinese Character Copyright Protection" was held at the Classic Bookstore in Nan'an District.
According to reports, "The Umbrella of Creation - Chronicle of Chinese Character Copyright Protection" is based on the story behind the birth, revision and latest edition of the Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China implemented on June 1, 2021.
As the first long-form reportage focusing on text copyright protection in China, "The Umbrella of Creation" has been selected as the 2023 key work support project of the China Writers Association. It aims to raise the copyright awareness of creators and the public and the importance of the whole society to the copyright of creators, tell the story of copyright, and promote the construction of a copyright power.
Li Yanyan, one of the authors and vice chairman of the Chongqing Writers Association, said: "Reportage is a good way to popularize the law, because the literary expression makes the case telling not only not boring, but also very vivid, and it is a form of work that 'anyone who can read and write'. ”
Zhang Hongbo, another author of the book, said: "With the launch of "The Umbrella of Creation", I hope that writers will understand that relying on legal weapons is the most effective means to solve the problem of infringement, and choose the right way to protect their rights and interests when they encounter copyright infringement in the future." In China, it takes a difficult and lengthy process to build awareness of intellectual property protection, and the launch of "The Umbrella of Creation" is a powerful literary promoter. ”
"There are three main features of this work. At the press conference, Ran Ran, chairman of the Chongqing Writers Association, said that one is that the work has a strong story and has many story details. "Many of the cases in the work are well-known, and many of them are handled or interviewed by the author himself, so there is a strong sense of substitution. Many of the cases handled or participated in by the Association are of typical social significance for boosting writers' confidence in protecting their rights and standardizing the development of the industry.
Ran Ran said that second, the "Umbrella of Creation-Chronicle of the Protection of Chinese Character Copyright" is rich in content and has a variety of cases. Involving book publishing, statutory licensing, film and television adaptation, plagiarism, manuscript washing, digital education, copyright trading platform and other fields, there are not only easy-to-understand analyses of cases and events, but also the author's unique views and reflections, and also introduces the highlights of the newly revised Copyright Law, which is conducive to readers understanding the specific provisions of the Copyright Law from specific cases. "Third, the topic of the work is important, which promotes the construction of a copyright power and the construction of a law-based country. ”
As mentioned earlier in this article, the author's manuscript has not yet been delivered to the publishing house, and there are already pirated books of the same name on the market, which is presented in "The Umbrella of Creation: A Chronicle of the Copyright Protection of Chinese Characters": "In 2006, less than a month after Yi Zhongtian's "Three Kingdoms" was auctioned at the Media Center, the "Three Kingdoms" signed 'Yi Zhongtian' appeared on the market. At this time, the original book has not yet been submitted in its entirety. And these so-called "Three Kingdoms" are even forged at all. "Readers who don't know what to know about buying such a book, not to mention that the pages are inferior, but also to read it with a preface that doesn't match the afterword, and they are fooled after reading it. ”
"These stories clearly explain and analyze the causes of many important copyright cases and events that have occurred in the past 30 years, and let us truly feel the efforts made by China in the protection of text copyright. Chen Jiangong, former vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association, former president of the Chinese Character Copyright Association, and a famous writer, commented.
Ding Xiaoyuan, vice president of the China Reportage Society and a well-known critic, believes that the book "is not only a specific narrative of the occurrence of China's copyright law and its 'evolution', but also reflects the historical process of the rule of law and the improvement of social civilization in contemporary China."
Upstream news reporter Qiu Jinyi courtesy of Classic Bookstore