Do Quy Doan, Deputy Minister of Information and Communication said at the recent National Press Congress that such violations have resulted in rampant content piracy.
Pham Duy Hoan, Editor-in-Chief of Dan Tri online newspaper, said for years certain websites have illegally copied articles in an attempt to enrich their own content and attract readers.
Dinh The Huynh, Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam’s Central Committee and Head of the Central Agitation Committee, talking to editors-in-chief on the sideline of the meeting
“A typical example is the case of Baomoi.com, a news site that was found to have illegally used around 10,000 news clips from Nang Luong Moi’s online edition - the Petrotimes (www.petrotimes.vn) over the past two years,” Hoan said.
He added that such online copyright violations have been on the increase in recent years, adding that violating sites are making money from the hard work of real journalists and reporters.
He also said that the editor-in-chief of any given news source is ultimately held accountable for the content they publish, so it is unfair for other sites to be able to use this content with impunity while earning advertising revenue at the same time.
He suggested that the Ministry of Information and Communication intensify its supervision over online media in order to work out a possible solution to the problem.
Dinh The Huynh, Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam’s Central Committee and Head of the Central Agitation Committee, requested that press management agencies apply strict punishments for cases of copyright infringement.
