Copyright violations trouble colleges

As universities across China increasingly go digital, creating a wealth of online resources that offer almost endless learning opportunities, experts have warned they could be guilty of massive breaches of copyright.

With the rapid development of internet technology, teachers have swapped chalkboards for dynamic multimedia presentations, while students today are more likely to do all their research and writing on an iPad, rather than using a library.

Yet the ways in which these materials are being shared - through so-called e-campuses and digital libraries - could be depriving copyright holders of income, according to copyright experts at a recent forum in Beijing ahead of World Intellectual Property Day, which fell on Wednesday.