Abstract

This presentation will cover the latest developments in the role of collecting rights management on the Chinese Mainland, with specific focus on Music Copyright Society of China (MCSC) and the China Audio-Video Collective Administration (AVCA). These two organizations are currently the only two collecting rights societies in China Mainland. Also discussed will be a new proposal for a third collecting rights society for literary works. The talk will discuss the new challenges and opportunities that information and web technologies are now bringing to collecting rights societies. It will also discuss new features being made available through MCSC’s online platforms including the Music Online Registration Platform (MORP) and Music on-line Exchange Platform (MOEP). The possibility of connecting such kind of platforms with public licensing in some respects will be discussed. In addition, alternatives to digital copyright management, such as that provided by the company R2G, will also be addressed.

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Chunyan Wang

Associate Professor
Law School of Renmin University of China

Chunyan Wang is Associate Professor of Law at Renmin University of China. She began her undergraduate studies at Zhejiang University Law School and was graduated from Peking University. She received her Ph.D. in Law from Renmin University of China. She was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School in 1996 and in 2003, specializing in Intellectual Property issues. Her area of specialty is Intellectual Property and Copyright Law.

Ms. Wang is also the Project Lead for Creative Commons China Mainland. She managed the official launch of the China Mainland version of the Creative Commons licenses in March 2006 in Beijing.

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