Live broadcasting of sporting events: a trigger to the revolutionary reform of Chinese copyright law by transforming the condition of originality

In Chinese law, the seemingly transparent condition of originality has been used to classify audiovisual productions into two categories: videograms protectable by neighboring rights and cinematographic works copyright, latter which benefit from a higher level protection. However, reality is that often involve intellectual efforts their production teams, as shown through live broadcasting sporting events, such one cannot completely deny absence therein. addition, considering legitimate interests TV organizations are justified significant investments need prohibit rampant retransmission broadcasts on Internet, it no longer possible maintain distinction between non-copyrightable productions. these circumstances, series famous cases doctrinal debates regarding events have triggered revolutionary reform Copyright Law China in 2020, statutory category replaced works. This not only granted copyright protection all but also adopted minimum threshold requirement for copyrightable may qualify originality. will likely further open door copyrights encompass vital industries.