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On November 11, 2020, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the PRC passed amendments to China's Copyright Law. The amended Chinese Copyright Law comes into effect on June 1, 2021. The key points include an increase in statutory damages and an increase in fines for copyright infringement. China's Copyright Law has been amended to improve copyright protection, align with international standards, and implement the Audiovisual Services Treaty that came into force this year. The current Chinese Copyright law has largely existed since 1991 and was changed in small parts in...

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On October 17th, 2020, the 22nd meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress of China passed the Decision on Revising the Patent Law of the People’s Republic of China. The newly revised Patent Law of China will come into force on June 1st, 2021. It took about 8 years to fulfill this fourth revision of Patent Law. The fourth amendment to the Patent Law has 29 articles.

Many of these changes were already in the proposed draft amendments that came out in 2019 and 2020, though there have also been some adjustments....