26 april is the 26th world intellectual property day. On 23 april, journalists learned from a press conference at the provincial high court that: in 2025, provincial courts handled 8608 intellectual property cases and concluded 7699 cases, an increase of 37. 31 per cent and 39. 45 per cent respectively. Of these, 8,387 civil cases were handled and 7504 were completed, an increase of 38. 77 per cent and 40. 84 per cent, respectively。
Of the 8608 intellectual property cases in the past year, the top three were disputes against the dissemination of information networks, trademarks and technical advisory contracts. The vice-president of the third division of the civil court of the higher people's court of guizhou province made a presentation: “the dispute over the violation of the right to information networks is the unauthorized use by the public of pictures of others, the most widely disseminated on the internet, and the number of cases of this type in the province last year was around 3,000, which can be divided into two broad categories: schools, kindergartens and other educational institutions, often using other people's pictures as a graph, which often leads to violations. The second category is the introduction of pictures of some of the other's dishes in commercial software, such as american missions, which can also lead to abuse.”
The launch also published 10 typical cases of judicial protection of intellectual property rights in 2025 in guizhou courts. This includes a case against a school for violation of the right to disseminate information about works。
One of the defendant's street centre schools published the happy 51 safe companion - a 51 holiday safe paternity book in its micro-intelligence public no., which used without permission a work of art with copyright rights for the plaintiff as a drawing. The people's court found that the defendant had violated the plaintiff's right to disseminate information networks by using pictures substantially similar to the works in question without permission. The defendant's public name is an open platform for the public and is spread far beyond the specific classroom, and its behaviour, although of a public interest, is not consistent with the reasonable use provided for by law. Taking into account the type of works of art involved, the difficulty of creation, the transaction costs of obtaining copyright for the plaintiff, the non-commercial nature of the defendant's establishment, the circumstances of the infringement, etc., the defendant is determined, as appropriate, to compensate the plaintiff for economic loss and reasonable expenses totalling $500。
The typical significance of the case is that, in recent years, the publication of security notices, campaign notices, etc. By educational institutions, such as schools, through micro-intelligence public numbers, has become the norm, with the use of web-based pictures more common. This case clarifies the scope of application of the reasonable use of “school classroom teaching” under article 24 of the copyright law of the people's republic of china: network accounts for the general public are not a specific setting that directly serves classroom teaching or research activities, and even if content is of a public nature and has limited dissemination, it does not constitute reasonable use. The case served as a warning to educational institutions to regulate the use of online works and helped to raise awareness of respect for copyright throughout society。
