If the circumstances are serious, you will be punished! Spring Festival movies were infringed, and 8 New Year movies were protected.

　　　　　　 CCTV News:During this year’s Spring Festival, many domestic films of New Year’s Eve which were shown in cinemas not only gained good box office and reputation, but also suffered serious online infringement and piracy. In this regard, the National Copyright Administration responded yesterday (15th) that it would intensify investigations in conjunction with various departments to curb the spread of infringement and piracy.

　　　　　　 On the first day of New Year’s Day, many domestic films with different types and themes were released in a concentrated way, which attracted many audiences to enter the cinema. Take the film The Wandering Earth as an example. By the afternoon of 15th, the box office of the film had exceeded 3.2 billion yuan, setting a new record for domestic films. However, within a few days of its release in The Wandering Earth, the pirated resources of the film began to spread on the Internet through WeChat friends circle and Weibo. Some people even openly peddled pirated resources of many cinema films, including The Wandering Earth, through Wechat business. Not only did they claim that the picture quality was "high-definition", but the price of a single film was as low as that of 1 yuan, and they could enjoy preferential treatment when they were packaged and purchased.

　　　　　　 Previously, through the clues provided by netizens, the reporter also found that some websites that downloaded free movie resources unscrupulously provided pirated resources of many New Year movies still being shown in cinemas on their homepages. Users can watch movies online without paying. However, when playing, there will be a gambling sites advertisement subtitle or pop-up information constantly on the screen.

　　　　　　 Zhaojie, director of the Copyright Law Enforcement Division of the National Copyright Administration, said that according to the monitoring situation, piracy is mostly concentrated in unregistered "three noes" small websites, some of which have servers located overseas, and some pirated contents or links are uploaded by third-party users or sold by third parties on e-commerce platforms.

　　　　　　 The relevant person in charge of the copyright law enforcement department of the National Copyright Administration said that the Copyright Administration attached great importance to the copyright protection of Spring Festival movies. In addition to including all eight New Year movies in the early warning list of copyright protection for the first batch of key works in 2019, the China Copyright Association Monitoring Center and the Film Quality Inspection Institute were deployed throughout the Spring Festival, and the monitoring of piracy was strengthened. Especially since February 7th, we have arranged for key film rights holders and monitoring agencies to set up docking windows, and jointly deleted infringing information with Internet service providers. As of the evening of 14th, 6,362 infringement links complained by right holders have been handled. At present, the online infringement and piracy of the Spring Festival movie shows a downward trend as a whole, from 1,634 on February 8 to 392 on February 14.

　　　　　　 Zhaojie, Director of the Copyright Enforcement Division of the National Copyright Administration, said: "Next, the National Copyright Administration will work with the National Film Administration, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other relevant departments to dig deep into the source of piracy and intensify the crackdown on sneak shots and illegal recordings in cinemas. The copyright law enforcement department will severely investigate and deal with websites, APPs, WeChat WeChat official account and e-commerce operators that sell and disseminate pirated films, and if the circumstances are serious, they will be handed over to the public security department for criminal treatment. "