Challenging copyright issues in cyberspace

On April 26, a discussion was held at the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Young generation with license in cyberspace. The seminar is an opportunity for the young generation to exchange and exchange many interesting and useful contents on copyright and related rights, contributing to raising awareness and awareness of compliance with the law on copyright and related rights. promote creative activities and protect creative achievements and develop cultural industries.

The digital environment also poses many challenges with copyright issues

Speaking at the opening of the discussion, Mr. Doan Van Viet – Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism said that if the work Mother’s burden – It takes a long time for tangible cultural products to ‘return my name’, but with piracy in cyberspace, it is even more difficult to handle.

Mr. Doan Van Viet affirmed that the protection of copyright and related rights plays an increasingly important role. “The continuous development of science, technology and digital has led to new creative tools, creating a storage environment, distribution method, and new forms of exploitation and use of works, performances, phonograms, video recordings, broadcasts. However, the digital environment also poses many challenges in self-protection of the rights of subjects and activities of management and enforcement agencies on copyright and related rights, especially in the context of copyright infringement. Rights in cyberspace involve many actors from different countries, making it difficult to identify and handle violations,” Viet emphasized.

With the current young generation, Mr. Viet believes that this is the generation of creators, ready to face challenges, especially in cyberspace, when mobile phones and the Internet connect globally, narrowing the gap. between the real world and cyberspace. This context creates conditions for the younger generation to promote creativity and innovation in business. “Young people with enthusiasm, passion and dynamism will continue to show innovative and creative thinking in activities in the fields of literature, art and science; play a pioneering role in copyright and related rights protection and together create a bright future…”, Mr. Viet emphasized.

Mr. Le Doan Hop – former Minister of Information and Communications, Honorary Chairman of the Vietnam Digital Media Association shared that the young generation with copyright in cyberspace is a hot, difficult and necessary topic. Vietnam is integrating strongly with the world and there is no reason why the world can do it but we can’t do it in copyright protection. “The time of young people ‘living’ in social networks and on the Internet is increasing day by day. The 4.0 revolution is a fast-paced, spectacular revolution. There are opportunities and challenges posed for all, in which young people have a huge mission… The world can do it, we can do it too. No matter how difficult things are, if we dare to jump in, we will find a way to do it, out ourselves. Simple to do first, complicated to do later, agree to do first, ”emphasized Mr. Le Doan Hop.

Community awareness helps limit piracy

Sharing solutions to improve the role of Internet service providers (ISPs), Mr. Le Quang Tu Do, Deputy Director of the Department of Radio, Television and Electronic Information (Ministry of Information and Communications) said that , need to monitor and require ISPs to respect and enforce copyright laws. The ever-improving legal foundation of Vietnam will be an ideal condition to require ISPs to seriously enforce.

“But, there is a fact that needs to be overcome is that Vietnamese people, including young people, often like to use it for free, while the money spent to register for copyrighted subscription applications is not expensive, only a few dollars. tens of thousands can watch the movie extremely sharp. But we still don’t like to use it for free, even though the free version is blurry, there are hidden camera angles, but we still like to watch it for free,” shared Mr. Le Quang Tu Do.

Therefore, Mr. Le Quang Tu Do said that, in addition to human operators and legal corridors, people’s awareness of copyright must be enhanced.

Mr. Phan Vu Tuan, Head of Phan Law Vietnam Law Office, affirmed that if young people themselves are aware of not watching movies or watching illegal football, copyright will have less land to survive. Mr. Tuan recalled the story of an 18-year-old boy who secretly filmed and livestreamed the movie Miss Saigon A few years ago, it caused great damage to content producers because the amount of billions of dong they spent was infringed on copyright.

Mr. Dinh Trung Can – Director of the Vietnam Music Copyright Protection Center (VCPMC) affirmed that, in the past 20 years, awareness in music copyright protection in particular and in other fields in general has increased. transformation. “We are going step by step, the rain seeps in for a long time, we are sure to go there to gradually reach stability. That needs the companionship of the music-loving public, especially young people, when exploiting songs and music on cyberspace…”, Mr. Can said.

Ms. Pham Thi Kim Oanh – Deputy Director of the Copyright Department (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) said that in order to become the pioneer generation of copyright protection, young people must first be the generation that does not. indifference to copyright. Each person can have options for entertainment and access to products, but in the spirit of respecting the creativity, mind and intellect of the creators and copyright holders.

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