Regulation on Protection of the Right to Network Disseminationof Information

Article 14: As for a network service provider that provides information storage space or provides searching and linking services, if the owner believes that a work, performance, or audio-visual recording involved in its services has infringed upon his or her own right to network dissemination of information, or has deleted or altered his or her own electronic information management right, he or she can submit a written notification to the network service provider and require that the network service provider delete the work, performance, or audio-visual recording or disconnect the link with the work, performance, or audio-visual recording. The notification shall include the following contents:

1. The name, contact information, and address of the owner;

2. The title and web address of the infringed work, performance, or audio-visual recording that must be deleted or the web addresses of the link that must be disconnected;

3. Preliminary materials to prove the infringement.

The owner shall be responsible for the authenticity of this notification.

Article 15: The network service provider, after receiving notification from the owner, shall immediately delete or disconnect the link to the work, performance, or audio-visual recording suspected of infringing on an other's right, and meanwhile shall transfer the notification to the service object of the work, performance, or audio-visual recording; if the network address of the service object is not clear and the notification cannot be transferred, the network service provider shall publicize the content of the notification through the information network.

Article 23: A network service provider that provides searching or linking services to a service object, and has disconnected the link to a work, performance, or audio-visual recording infringing on an other's right after receiving notification from the owner, shall not be liable for compensation; however, if it knew or should have known that the linked work, performance, or audio-visual recording has infringed upon an other's right, it shall bear liability for joint infringement.

                                                                            (China Daily 06/16/2008 page9)