The National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on April 25, 2023 signed an updated Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on bilateral cooperation in Beijing, taking their cooperation to a new level. Zhang Jianchun, Vice Minister of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, and Daren Tang Director General of the WIPO, signed the MoU respectively.

The NCAC and WIPO have been supporting each other and cooperating sincerely in international copyright affairs. Since the two sides signed the original MoU in 2015, they have made fruitful achievements in strengthening international copyright exchanges and cooperation. Through joint promotion, the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances, the first international intellectual property treaty concluded in China and named after a Chinese city, took effect on April 28, 2020, and the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled, the first and only human rights treaty within copyright so far, came into force in China on May 5, 2022.

The updated MoU aims to consolidate the existing exchanges and cooperation in the field of copyright, expand and strengthen the bilateral cooperation in formulating and implementing international copyright treaties, discussing digital copyright protection issues, improving the risk prevention and control capacity of the copyright industry, sharing copyright to encourage creation and innovation among the small- and medium-sized enterprises, and promoting the inheritance and development of folk literature and art, and other issues.

(Source: http://www.iprchn.com)