The copyrights of music used for next year's Beijing Olympic
Games will be protected by the organizers, according to a
protection plan set out yesterday by the Beijing Organizing
Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) and the Music
Copyright Society of China (MCSC).
According to the plan, BOCOG will pay for music used at the
Olympic opening and closing ceremonies, cultural activities at the
venues and during the medal presentation ceremonies, if the
copyrights belong to others.
It is estimated the Beijing Olympic Games will include nearly
10,000 music works.
"BOCOG has made a great effort in the area of intellectual
property rights protection and protecting copyrights is an
important part of this," Liu Yan, vice-director of the BOCOG legal
affairs department, said.
"There will be a large number and variety of musical works used
at the Olympic Games, which makes our task more difficult. We have
discussed this with the MCSC for nearly a year."
BOCOG has been commissioning songs for the Olympic Games since
2003 and has designated MCSC to manage copyright issues.
(China Daily November 9, 2007)