| A total of 943 Chinese exhibition enterprises Wednesday signed a manifesto promising a joint effort to protect copyrights in this industry.
The Combined Action on Copyright Protection in Exhibition Industry was published by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) at the second international cooperation forum on the exhibition industry.
All the signers pledged to uproot such activities as cribbing, counterfeiting, forging and pirating copyrights on all kinds of exhibitions and fairs.
"To enforce copyright protection among exhibition enterprises represents a required course to guarantee a sound development of the industry," said Li Ling, director of law and regulation bureau under China's Ministry of Commerce.
At the forum, the CCPIT also signed a Sino-US Manifesto on Copyright Protection in the Exhibition Industry with International Association for Exhibition Management (IAEM).
The two sides pledged in the manifesto to elaborate the significance of copyright protection to presiders, participants, officials and law enforcement departments of their own countries so as to avoid undermining the reputation of various exhibitions.
"The manifesto's subscription signified a deeper cooperation in the exhibition industry between China and the United States, and the new sibstamtoa; step of Chinese exhibition enterprises toward the world," said Gao Yan, vice president of the CCPIT.
The two-day forum was jointly held by the CCPIT, the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry, IAEM and the Society of Independent Show Organization (SISO), drawing more than 600 eminent domestic and overseas exhibition runners to discuss copyright protection and the labor resources of exhibition industries under economic globalization. |
