Regulators crack down on piracy

Internet companies urged to carry out internal copyright inspections

China's copyright watchdog launched a four-month national campaign on Monday to crack down on online copyright infringement, mostly targeting online reposts of articles, video clips and animation games.

The campaign will target copyright infringement in online media, particularly self-employed accounts on social media such as weibo and WeChat. Without permission, those accounts repost news stories, take excerpts from original articles or tamper with them. The campaign will regulate such behavior in search engines, browsers, application stores, weibo and WeChat, according to the National Copyright Administration of China.