◇ Important news
1. Proposed revision of the National Defense Education Law: On the 23rd, the revised draft of the National Defense Education Law was submitted to the Ninth Session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress for initial deliberation. The main contents of the revised draft include: clarifying the connotation and positioning of national defense education, clarifying the guiding ideology of national defense education, clarifying the leadership system and work responsibilities of national defense education, improving the national defense education system in schools, expanding the scope and channels of national defense education in society, and strengthening the guarantee of national defense education. (Xinhua News Agency)
2. The SPC launched the pilot work of "AI intelligent review of copyright": On the 22nd, the SPC launched the pilot work of "AI intelligent review of copyright". With the help of "image search" technology and massive data pools, the three major functions of "image duplication checking", "innovative reference" and "infringement comparison" are realized, and the problems of original ownership determination and similarity comparison in image copyright cases are further solved. This measure will significantly improve the accuracy of ascertaining facts and determining judgments in copyright trials, which is conducive to reducing the difficulty of rights holders in protecting their rights and collecting evidence, effectively cracking down on the abuse of rights, and effectively preventing false lawsuits. (China News Network)
3. The Ministry of Public Security deploys and carries out the "Fox Hunt 2024" special operation: Recently, the Ministry of Public Security deployed public security organs across the country to carry out the "Fox Hunt 2024" special operation to arrest fugitive overseas economic crime suspects, which will increase the intensity of key cases of chasing fugitives and recovering stolen goods, effectively improve the quality and efficiency of the pursuit of fugitives and stolen goods, and deepen and expand law enforcement cooperation channels. Over the past 10 years, with the overall coordination of the Central Fugitive Pursuit Office and the strong support and assistance of relevant departments, the "Fox Hunt Operation" has arrested more than 9,000 fugitive economic crime suspects from more than 120 countries and regions, recovered nearly 49 billion yuan in stolen goods and losses, and made positive contributions to promoting the comprehensive rule of law. (CCTV)
◇ National Hot List
1. The Office of the CPC Central Committee and the Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Improving the Volunteer Service System in the New Era": It is proposed that by 2035, a systematic, scientific, standardized, coordinated and efficient volunteer service system and work system will be basically formed, the quality of the volunteer service team will be excellent, the management will be standardized, the service field will continue to expand, the service capacity will be significantly improved, and the role of economic and social development will be more prominent; The sense of dedication has been generally enhanced, and volunteer service has become an important symbol of a socialist cultural power. (People's Daily Online)
2. The 2024 National Cultural and Tourism Consumption Promotion Activity was launched: The Ministry of Culture and Tourism launched the 2024 National Cultural and Tourism Consumption Promotion Activity in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province on the 23rd. With the theme of "Cultural Tourism Benefiting the People and Sharing a Better Life", the event will run from April 2024 to February 2025, and will be divided into the national "May Day" cultural and tourism consumption week, summer cultural and tourism consumption season, National Day cultural and tourism consumption month, Spring Festival cultural and tourism consumption month, and special consumption promotion activities. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism will hold special main activities with relevant localities to jointly launch characteristic cultural and tourism activities, new consumption scenarios and consumption measures to benefit the people, so that enterprises can really benefit and people can benefit. (Xinhuanet)
3. Wang Junshi, former deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Linyi City People's Congress in Shandong Province, was sentenced to 13 years and 6 months in prison in the first instance: On 22 July, the Zaozhuang Intermediate People's Court in Shandong Province publicly pronounced a verdict in the first instance on the case of Wang Junshi, former deputy secretary of the leading party group and deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Linyi City People's Congress, in the case of accepting bribes, and sentenced him to 13 years and 6 months in prison and a fine of 3.4 million yuan for accepting bribes. After investigation, from the end of 2008 to the Spring Festival of 2023, Wang Junshi provided assistance to relevant units and individuals in project contracting. From November 2008 to January 2023, he illegally accepted property from relevant units and individuals totaling more than 34.27 million yuan, either directly or through others. (Xinhuanet)
4. The first-instance verdict of the country's first "AI voice infringement case": On the 23rd, the Beijing Internet Court pronounced the first-instance verdict on the country's first "AI voice infringement case". The case involved the abuse of voice actors' voice rights and interests by AI technology, which attracted widespread attention. The court finally ruled that the defendant used Yin's voice to develop AI text-to-speech products without legal authorization, which constituted infringement, and it was necessary to apologize in writing and compensate Yin for various losses totaling 250,000 yuan. It is reported that the plaintiff Yin, a voice actor, accidentally found that his voice was AI-based and sold it on an APP, so he sued five defendants including a Beijing intelligent company, the operator of the APP, to the court on the grounds of infringing on his voice rights. (People's Court Daily)
5. The delivery man was sentenced for stealing wild spring orchids: In August 2023, when the Sucheng District Court of Suqian, Jiangsu Province tried a criminal case of endangering national key protected plants, it was found that 83,000 of the wild spring orchids purchased by the suspect Wang online were provided by Yao. After investigation, 38-year-old Yao has been working as a delivery man, and in order to make more money, he picked or bought wild orchids from local villagers in his hometown of Enshi, Hubei Province, and resold them online. Recently, the verdict of the case was announced, and Yao was sentenced to ten months in prison, suspended for one year, and fined 1,000 yuan. (Guangming.com)
6. Establish 230 "Eating Melon" Groups to Forward Rumors and Divert Traffic to Overseas Websites! Seven People Were Taken Criminal Coercive Measures: Recently, the Shanghai police arrested seven criminal suspects for attracting traffic to foreign pornographic and gambling websites. After investigation, the suspect got in touch with illegal overseas websites through recruitment advertisements for part-time jobs, engaged in the work of so-called "data senders", and established and operated 230 groups, receiving materials with video screenshots and URL pictures from overseas website contacts every day, and forwarding them to groups to lure others to click and watch. The suspect knew that these videos were all false content concocted for "hot spots", but still forwarded and lured the "melon-eating masses" to click and log in, gain traffic for the website, and add fuel to the rumors. At present, seven people have been taken criminal compulsory measures in accordance with the law on suspicion of the crime of illegally using information networks. (CNR)
◇ Rule of law in Shijiazhuang
The static squadron of the Yuhua Traffic Police Brigade dismantled the private ground lock
On the morning of April 18, the police of the static squadron of the Yuhua Traffic Police Brigade came to the Tenghua Yaju community near the intersection of the South Second Ring Road and Cangfeng Road, and removed the ground lock installed in the public area. In the process of demolition by the police, an owner who installed the ground lock hurriedly arrived at the scene to remove the ground lock. The area in front of the community is a public parking space, and the police officer Zhao Zhixue also patiently reminded the business residents. Many residents at the scene said that the ground locks were erected here without permission, which had an impact on everyone's life and travel. (Rule of Law Time)
◇ The most beautiful provincial capital
The two sections of the auxiliary road of Fuxing Street in Shijiazhuang were completed and opened to traffic today
Source: Shijiazhuang Law Popularization and Media Publicity Center