Illustrative image (Source: Techsignin) Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam – Republic of Koreacopyrights forum took place in Hanoi on October 31 to discuss issues concerningcopyrights management in digital environment.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, head of the Ministry ofCulture, Sports and Tourism’s Copyright Office of Vietnam Bui Nguyen Hung said theevent affords a chance to review legal enforcement on copyrights and acquirethe RoK’s experience in the field.
Hung said Vietnam has a basic legal framework to protectintellectual property (IP) rights, a national strategy on the development of IPrights, joined international agreements on IP protection and raised publicawareness of IP rights.
However, there remain loopholes in protecting copyrights inVietnam due to lax regulations and inefficient management, he said.
Kim Chan-dong from the RoK’s Copyrights Committee said piracyon digital networks has spread in both Vietnam and the RoK, especially sincethe emergence of the Internet-of-Thing amid the fourth industrial revolution.
Since 2015, the RoK has built a copyrights policy and a planto respond to technological change, he said.
Kim suggested that both countries should strengthen trainingcooperation and awareness campaigns about copyrights protection, build a closecooperation system between the two governments, and create an environment totap works via collaboration with the Collective Management Organisation.
About broadcast rights protection, Deputy Director of theRoK’s MBC station Lee Chang-hun said the RoK is one of the five countries incurringthe most severe loss from copyrights piracy, amounting to an estimated over 1trillion won.
A 2016 study by the MBC showed that the use of piratedcontents tripled the legal ones.
To cope with the issue, the RoK established copyrightsassociations abroad to monitor and prevent revenues from unlicensed websites.
Nguyen Thanh Van, head of the IP unit from the VietnamTelevision’s Inspection Department said its TV programmes are copied andbroadcast massively on the Internet and sold to the market in compact disk form.
He called for raising public awareness of copyrightsprotection law and issuing strict disciplines on violations.-VNA
Speaking at the opening ceremony, head of the Ministry ofCulture, Sports and Tourism’s Copyright Office of Vietnam Bui Nguyen Hung said theevent affords a chance to review legal enforcement on copyrights and acquirethe RoK’s experience in the field.
Hung said Vietnam has a basic legal framework to protectintellectual property (IP) rights, a national strategy on the development of IPrights, joined international agreements on IP protection and raised publicawareness of IP rights.
However, there remain loopholes in protecting copyrights inVietnam due to lax regulations and inefficient management, he said.
Kim Chan-dong from the RoK’s Copyrights Committee said piracyon digital networks has spread in both Vietnam and the RoK, especially sincethe emergence of the Internet-of-Thing amid the fourth industrial revolution.
Since 2015, the RoK has built a copyrights policy and a planto respond to technological change, he said.
Kim suggested that both countries should strengthen trainingcooperation and awareness campaigns about copyrights protection, build a closecooperation system between the two governments, and create an environment totap works via collaboration with the Collective Management Organisation.
About broadcast rights protection, Deputy Director of theRoK’s MBC station Lee Chang-hun said the RoK is one of the five countries incurringthe most severe loss from copyrights piracy, amounting to an estimated over 1trillion won.
A 2016 study by the MBC showed that the use of piratedcontents tripled the legal ones.
To cope with the issue, the RoK established copyrightsassociations abroad to monitor and prevent revenues from unlicensed websites.
Nguyen Thanh Van, head of the IP unit from the VietnamTelevision’s Inspection Department said its TV programmes are copied andbroadcast massively on the Internet and sold to the market in compact disk form.
He called for raising public awareness of copyrightsprotection law and issuing strict disciplines on violations.-VNA
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