Taobao, Baidu Cloud Storage Service Slammed for Piracy in US’ 2020 Review of Notorious Markets

Several Chinese websites, including Taobao and Baidu Wangpan, are among those named notorious markets for counterfeiting and piracy in an annual review by the US Trade Representative’s (USTR), published on 14 January. Calling out 39 websites and 34 physical markets on their involvement in acts of piracy and infringements detrimental to American intellectual properties, economy and consumers, the report also names a number of brick-and-mortar markets in China, including the Huaqiangbei Electronics Mall in Shenzhen and Xiushui Street in Beijing. It further notes that China remains a major source of physical piracy, having accounted for 92 percent of the total value of pirated imports seized by US Customs in 2019.

In the report, the USTR says that commercial-scale copyright infringement and piracy activities cause US businesses economic losses. The purpose of the report, it says, is to encourage the government and the private sector to take action to reduce piracy and copyright infringement, and a focus this year is how e-commerce platforms are contributing to copyright infringement.

Source: Stand News #Jan15

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Hong Kong Filmmaker Inserts "Sensitive" Words to Curb Video-Piracy by Chinese Netizens

Hebe is a Hong Kong filmmaker who fell victim to video piracy: Chinese netizens have been reposting Hebe's original videos to make profit without his consent.

Hebe has a video channel with over 60,000 subscribers. His videos introduces the locations wherein Hong Kong films in the 1980s and the 1990s were shot.

He made complaints to websites in China after discovering that his videos have been 'stolen' and reposted on the Chinese Internet; however, no action has been taken.

In the end, Hebe used an unconventional way to fend off video pirates from China by inserting words that are deemed "sensitive" by Chinese authorities.

Even when his videos were reposted on Chinese websites, the censors would soon take them down.

Source: RTHK #Jul12
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/component/k2/1600320-20210712.htm

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