On March 23th, the National Copyright Administration released the National Copyright Registration Bulletin in 2021, including the copyright registration of works, computer software copyright registration, and copyright pledge registration in 2021. The data shows that in 2021, the total number of copyright registrations nationwide reached 6,264,378, a year-on-year increase of 24.30%, in which copyright registration of works is 3,983,943, a year-on-year increase of 20.13%, and copyright registration of computer software is 2,280,063, a year-on-year increase of 32.34%.

The Bulletin indicates that in terms of copyright registration of works, in 2021, the number of national copyright registrations of works has increased stably overall, of which the number of registration in Beijing has reached 1,025,511, accounting for 25.74% of the total, moreover, compared with 2020, the growth rate of copyright registration of works in Hunan, Hebei, Yunnan, Anhui and other provinces has all exceeded 100%. For type of works, art work has the most registrations with 1,670,092, accounting for 41.92% of the total; photographic work takes the second with 1,553,318, accounting for 38.99%; the third is written work with 295,729, accounting for 7.42%, and the fourth is film and television work, it accounts for 6.14% with 244,538. The copyright registration of works of mentioned types occupies 94.47% of the total registration. In terms of copyright registration of computer software, 2,280,063 national registrations have been completed in 2021, a year-on-year increase of 32.34%. For the distribution of registered regions, computer software copyright registration areas are mainly in the eastern region, with a registration of about 1.44 million, accounting for 63.1%. For the number of all regions, provinces (cities) with more computer software copyright registrations are successively Guangdong, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Beijing, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Shandong, Hubei, Fujian, and Shaanxi. A total of around 1.63 million software copyrights were registered in the above-mentioned regions, accounting for 71.5% of the total number, in which there were about 270,000 software copyright registrations in Guangdong Province, accounting for 11.8% of the total. In terms of copyright pledge registration, a total of 375 have been registered in China in 2021, a year-on-year decrease of 3.13%，340 copyright pledge registrations of computer software were included, a year-on-year increase of 3.98%, and 340 contracts were involved, a year-on-year increase of 3.98%.

From China Intellectual Property News

March 24th, 2022