Mainland, Taiwan agree to cooperate on royalty collection

Copyright common government associations in a Chinese mainland as well as Taiwan have reached an agreement to concur upon pick up of royalties.

The mainland-based China Written Works Copyright Society (CWWCS) sealed a reciprocal agreement with Taiwan-based Chinese Oral as well as Literary Copyright Collective Management Association (COLCCMA) here Sunday, according to a matter released by a CWWCS Monday.

According to this agreement, from 2011, a COLCCMA will collect royalties from Taiwan's universities as well as duplicate shops for duplicating functions of mainland authors.

The COLCCMA is also authorized to move law suits against a duplicate shops if they exclude to pay a royalties, according to a statement.

The royalties picked up in Taiwan will be transferred to a CWWCS as well as then paid to a mainland authors, pronounced Zhang Hongbo, deputy director of a CWWCS.

Zhang pronounced a CWWCS will collect royalties for Taiwanese authors for a use of their created functions in a mainland's newspapers as well as textbooks.

The agreement does not cover kingship collections from a mainland's duplicate shops as there is no widely-recognized system in place for them.

Zhang pronounced that during a assembly with Fu Chau-Hsing, house authority of a COLCCMA, Fu voiced a need to streamline a mainland's kingship pick up system.

According to a statement, a CWWCS represents some-more than 4,000 writers upon a Chinese mainland upon copyright affairs.


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