Jiangsu court concluded China's largest criminal case by financial scale involving "pirated links" on online film and television platforms. The case resulted in prison sentences and heavy fines for the key figures behind the illegal distribution of over 83,000 audiovisual works.
The Beijing Internet Court ruled on China’s first case concerning the infringement of personality rights through AI-generated voices earlier this year. The court established that the protection of a natural person’s voice rights extends to AI-generated voices if identifiable.
On April 22, the Shanghai No. 3 Intermediate People’s Court upheld a lower court’s ruling in a case of criminal copyright infringement involving Lego sets. The court imposed a fine of 600 million RMB on the defendant company Long XX.
China has issued the world's first legally binding verdict concerning copyright infringement of AI-generated images, according to news released on Monday. The Guangzhou Internet Court ruled on Feb 8 that an AI company was guilty of infringing on copyright.
The total number of copyright registrations nationwide reached 8,923,901 in 2023, a year-on-year increase of 40.46%, according to news released by the National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC).
