On August 17, 2020, the National People’s Congress released the amendments to the copyright law (second deliberation draft) for comment. The deadline for comments is September 30, 2020 and the comments will likely focus on issues such as defining copyrightable works and the scope of fair use.
“Compared to the first revision, there aren’t many significant changes made in the second revision. As such, there may not be so many comments in by the public compared with the first revision and data on the Congress’ website reinforce this point,” expects Xiang Wang, partner-in-charge of Orrick’s Asia offices. “More than 50,000 individuals posted over 167,000 comments to the first revision, while as of August 26, 2020, only 49 individuals posted 117 comments to the second revision.”
While not many, there are significant changes between the first and the second revision